dislocation
Significat (Anglès)
- (countable, uncountable) The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
- (countable, uncountable) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied.
- (countable, uncountable) The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
- (countable, uncountable) 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.
- (countable, uncountable) 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.
- (countable, uncountable) In men's gymnastics, a rotating of the shoulders when performing a backwards turn on the still rings. Many skills in acrobatics appear to involve dislocating a joint, when they actually do not.
Conceptes
Sinònims
dislocated part
lack of coordination
modification
transmutation
moving out of position
metachoresis
Traduccions
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/dɪsləʊˈkeɪʃən/
Etimologia (Anglès)
From Middle English, from Old French, a borrowing from Medieval Latin dislocātiō, delocatio.
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