Dislocation

Definition:

• (n.) The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
• (n.) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.
• (n.) The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.

Compare dislocation with other words:

dislocation vs. location

dislocation vs. procatalepsis

dislocation vs. displacement

dislocation vs. fracture

dislocation vs. polyspast

dislocation vs. reorient

dislocation vs. subluxation

dislocation vs. scala

dislocation vs. disposition

dislocation vs. nether

dislocation vs. reduction

dislocation vs. shift

dislocation vs. lattice

crystal vs. dislocation

defect vs. dislocation

dislocation vs. linear

dislocation vs. joint

dislocation vs. strata

dislocation vs. displaced

dislocation vs. displacing

dislocation vs. reduce

dislocation vs. jump