dislocation

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
2. (countable, uncountable) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied.
3. (countable, uncountable) The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
4. (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.
5. (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.
6. (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.

Synonyms

displacement

luxation

disruption

transposition

shift

sprain

disarrangement

fault

dislocated part

lack of coordination

breakdown

distraction

disturbance

failure

fracture

indexing

interference

inversion

justification

misalignment

mismatch

misplacement

modification

muddle

nuisance

offset

perturbation

quake

rearrangement

removal

replacement

shake

🫨

shedding

shifting

slide

spraining

transformation

translocation

transmutation

tumble

twist

unseat

upset

wrench

🔧

dislodgment

moving out of position

subluxation

strike-slip fault

metachoresis

violence

Translations

luxation

dislocación

Luxation

lussazione

dislocation

Dislokation

slogatura

deslocação

εξάρθρωση

Verrenkung

luxação

luxación

Verlagerung

deslocamento

ingorgo

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪsləʊˈkeɪʃən/

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, a borrowing from Medieval Latin dislocātiō, delocatio.