dislocation
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French, a borrowing from Medieval Latin dislocātiō, delocatio.
Pronunciation
Noun
| Examples (grammar) |
|---|
|
dislocation (countable and uncountable, plural dislocations)
- The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
- 1939 December, Mercury, “The British War Emergency Timetables, October, 1939”, in Railway Magazine, page 373:
- As mentioned last month in the article "Railways and the War," the emergency timetables were planned in view of the possibility of serious dislocation of transport by air raids in the early days of the war, and were regarded as the minimum service which would keep the activities of the country alive.
- 1961 December, “Planning the London Midland main-line electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 722:
- At large stations such as Euston and Birmingham New Street, it is essential to compress the station reconstruction, re-signalling and overhead wiring into the shortest possible time, not only to minimise the period of traffic dislocation but also to ensure completion by the time the remainder of the lines is electrified.
- 1986 February 1, Nicholas Deutsch, “7th Annual New York Gay Film Festival”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 8:
- Let's hope someone can get an original Spanish print for U.S. distribution; the redubbed Mexican version shown at the Festival does a disservice to the fine performances by its slight (but annoying) dislocations of sound and image.
- (geology) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied.
- The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
- Synonym: luxation
- 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 162:
- They used steroids to build strength but, more importantly, to recover from strains, pulls, dislocations.
- (materials science) 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.
- (grammar) 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.
Derived terms
- dislocational
- dislocational
- dislocationary
- redislocation
- Taylor-Orowan dislocation
- Taylor's dislocation
Translations
the act of displacing or the state of being displaced
|
dislocating of a joint
|
a linear defect in a crystal lattice
|
Further reading
dislocation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - dislocation (syntax) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin dislocātiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
dislocation f (plural dislocations)
- (linguistics, grammar) dislocation
- dislocation à droite ― right dislocation
- dislocation à gauche ― left dislocation
Further reading
- “dislocation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Wikiwand in your browser!
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.
