dislocation
English
Etymology
Middle English, from Old French, a borrowing from Medieval Latin dislocātiō, delocatio
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
dislocation (countable and uncountable, plural dislocations)
- 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. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.
- The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
- (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.
- (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. For example, the sentence, "My father, he is a good man", is a left dislocation because the constituent "My father" has been moved to the left of the clause "he is a good man". See dislocation.
Translations
act or state of displacing
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dislocating of a joint
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See also
Dislocation (linguistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
See also
dislocation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin dislocātiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
dislocation f (plural dislocations)
References
- “dislocation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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