DISLOCATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does dislocation mean?
• DISLOCATION (noun)
The noun DISLOCATION has 3 senses:
1. an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
2. the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
3. a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)
Familiarity information: DISLOCATION used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• DISLOCATION (noun)
Meaning:
An event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
dislocation; disruption
Hypernyms ("dislocation" is a kind of...):
break; interruption (some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity)
Meaning:
The act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
breakdown; dislocation
Context examples:
the social dislocations resulting from government policies / his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London
Hypernyms ("dislocation" is a kind of...):
disruption; perturbation (the act of causing disorder)
Meaning:
A displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("dislocation" is a kind of...):
harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dislocation"):
abarticulation (dislocation of a joint)
diastasis (separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone)
spondylolisthesis (a forward dislocation of one vertebra over the one beneath it producing pressure on spinal nerves)
