dislocation
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /dɪsləʊˈkeɪʃən/
dislocation
- The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
- (geology) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.
- The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
- (materials) 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. For example, the sentence, "My father, he is a good man", is a left dislocation because the constituent "My father" has been moved to the left of the clause "he is a good man". See Dislocation (syntax).
- Italian: dislocamento, ripartizione
- Portuguese: deslocamento, deslocação
- Russian: смеще́ние
- French: luxation
- German: Verrenkung, Luxation
- Portuguese: deslocamento, deslocação, luxação
- Russian: вы́вих
- Spanish: luxación, dislocación
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