dislocation
IPA: dɪsɫˈoʊkˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
- (geology) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied.
- The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
- (materials science) A linear defect in a crystal lattice. Because dislocations can shift within the crystal lattice, they tend to weaken the material, compared to a perfect crystal.
- (grammar) A sentence structure in which a constituent that could otherwise be either an argument or an adjunct of a clause occurs outside of and adjacent to the clause boundaries.
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Examples of "dislocation" in Sentences
- The temporal dislocation is performative, a matter of backdrops and props, idioms of rewritten dialogue.
- Stories of death and dislocation from the superpower invasion of 1979, and now from the American occupation, entering its tenth year.
- "Many, many, many - maybe 80 percent - of the numbers you are seeing in the report would turn into long-term dislocation," Elnashai said.
- In some persons the ligaments of the joint are unnaturally lax, and dislocation is liable to occur repeatedly from comparatively slight causes -- _recurrent dislocation_.
- After stories of death and dislocation from the Soviet invasion of 1979, and now from the American occupation, Nur Akbari imagines communities learning to provide for themselves.
- Worse than that, a gradual dislocation is occuring where the rest of us are pushing for more energy efficient devices and vehicles, alternate energy sources and a generally less energy intensive economy.
- _Fractures of metatarsal bones_; _Fractures of phalanges_ -- DISLOCATIONS: _Of ankle joint_; _Of inferior tibio-fibular joint_; _Complete dislocation of talus_; _Sub-taloid dislocation_; _Medio-tarsal dislocation_; _Tarso-metatarsal dislocation_; _Dislocations of toes_.
- It's a little too early to tell exactly the types of things that are driving that and if it's just short-term sticker shock, if it's short-term dislocation because of those price gaps that I talked about, long term, when you look at pairs purchased per year in a lot of our basic categories, those numbers have been extremely stable over the last decade or more.
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