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DISLOCATION

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue

Example:

his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London

Synonyms:

breakdown; dislocation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("dislocation" is a kind of...):

disruption; perturbation (the act of causing disorder)

Derivation:

dislocate (put out of its usual place, position, or relationship)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An event that results in a displacement or discontinuity

Synonyms:

dislocation; disruption

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("dislocation" is a kind of...):

break; interruption (some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity)

Derivation:

dislocate (put out of its usual place, position, or relationship)

dislocate (move out of position)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("dislocation" is a kind of...):

harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dislocation"):

abarticulation (dislocation of a joint)

diastasis (separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone)

spondylolisthesis (a forward dislocation of one vertebra over the one beneath it producing pressure on spinal nerves)

Derivation:

dislocate (put out of its usual place, position, or relationship)

dislocate (move out of position)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Dislocations are joint injuries that force the ends of your bones out of position.

(Dislocations, NIH)