Word Study
dislikable |
dislike |
disliked |
dislocate |
dislocated |
dislocation
| dislodge
| dislodgement
| dislodgment
| dislogistic
| disloyal
dislocation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun dislocation has 3 senses
- dislocation(n = noun.event) disruption - an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity; Array is a kind of break, interruption
- dislocation(n = noun.act) breakdown - 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" is a kind of disruption, perturbation
- dislocation(n = noun.state) Array - a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column); Array is a kind of harm, hurt, injury, trauma
Derived forms verb dislocate2, verb dislocate1
Derived form verb dislocate2
has particulars: abarticulation, diastasis, spondylolisthesis
Derived forms verb dislocate2, verb dislocate1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
dislocation, n.
1 the act or result of dislocating.
2 Crystallog. the displacement of part of a crystal lattice structure.
1 the act or result of dislocating.
2 Crystallog. the displacement of part of a crystal lattice structure.
Etymology
ME f. OF dislocation or med.L dislocatio f. dislocare (as DIS-, locare place)
THESAURUS
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, zoningROGET THESAURUS
dislocation
Disjunction
N disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.Derangement
N derangement, disorder, evection, discomposure, disturbance, disorganization, deorganization, dislocation, perturbation, interruption, shuffling, inversion, corrugation, involvement, interchange, deranged, syncretic, syncretistic, mussy, messy, flaky, random, unordered.Displacement
N displacement, elocation, transposition, ejectment, exile, removal, misplacement, dislocation, fish out of water, displaced, unplaced, unhoused, unharbored, unestablished, unsettled, houseless, homeless, out of place, out of a situation, in the wrong place, misplaced, out of its element.
For further exploring for "dislocation" in Webster Dictionary Online