dislocation

English

Etymology

Middle English, from Old French, from stem of Medieval Latin dislocatio, delocatio

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

dislocation (plural dislocations)

1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
2. (geology) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.
3. The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
4. (materials) 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.
5. (grammar) This word needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Translations

act or state of displacing

Bulgarian: изместване (bg) n. Czech: přemístění (cs) n.

Russian: смещение (ru) (smeščénije) n.

dislocating of a joint

Bulgarian: изкълчване (bg) n. Chinese: Mandarin: 脫位 (zh), 脱位 (zh) (tuōwèi), 脫臼 (zh), 脱臼 (zh) (tuōjiù) Czech: vykloubení (cs) n. Finnish: sijoiltaanmeno (fi)

French: luxation (fr) f. German: Verrenkung (de) f., Luxation (de) f. Japanese: 脱臼 (ja) (だっきゅう, dakkyū), 断層 (ja) (だんそう, dansō) Russian: вывих (ru) (vývix) m.

See also

• Dislocation (linguistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Dislocation (linguistics)

See also

• Dislocation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia