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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dislocation \Dis'lo*ca"tion\, noun [Cf. F. dislocation.]
1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced. --T. Burnet.
2. (Geol.) 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. (Surg.) The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dislocation
noun
1: an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity [syn: {disruption}]
2: 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" [syn: {breakdown}]
3: a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "dislocation": abstraction, alienation, convulsion, derangement, detachment, disarrangement, disarticulation, disassociation, discomposure, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuity, disengagement, disjointing, disjunction, disorder, disorganization, disturbance, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, incoherence, insanity, isolation, luxation, misarrangement, parting, partition, perturbation, removal, segmentation, separation, separatism, shuffling, subdivision, subtraction, withdrawal, zoning
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