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dislocation::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | breakdown |
| Type of | perturbation, disruption |
| Derivation | dislocate |
the social dislocations resulting from government policies.
dislocation::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | disruption |
| Type of | interruption, break |
| Derivation | dislocate |
dislocation::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | trauma, harm, hurt, injury |
| Has types | diastasis, spondylolisthesis, abarticulation |
| Derivation | dislocate |
Examples of dislocation
dislocation
The country is plagued by bad sanitation, disease, malnutrition and dislocation.
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It ended up being a season-ending dislocation to the Lisfranc joint in his foot.
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In addition, the dislocation in credit markets will be felt for quite some time.
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The son of a career diplomat, he suffers from a sense of permanent dislocation.
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Here's this old guy, hurting 40 years later from a sudden economic dislocation.
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In women, higher dislocation rates were seen among those aged 80 to 90 years old.
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In the Roman Empire, the century after the Crucifixion was a time of dislocation.
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The hope is that rural areas can absorb the returnees without severe dislocation.
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It was easily his best game since suffering the shocking hip dislocation in 2011.
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- An event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
- The act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue; "the social dislocations resulting from government policies"; "his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London"
- A displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)
- (dislocate) move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically"
- (dislocate) put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; "The colonists displaced the natives"
- (dislocated) disjointed: separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated shoulder"
- In materials science, a dislocation is a crystallographic defect or irregularity, within a crystal structure. The presence of dislocations strongly influences many of the properties of materials. The theory was originally developed by Vito Volterra in 1905. ...
- Joint dislocation, or luxation (Latin: luxatio) , occurs when bones in a joint become displaced or misaligned. It is often caused by a sudden impact to the joint. The ligaments always become damaged as a result of a dislocation. A subluxation is a partial dislocation.
- In syntax, dislocation is a sentence structure in which a constituent which could otherwise be either an argument or an adjunct of the clause occurs outside the clause boundaries either to its left or to its right as in English They went to the store, Mary and Peter.
