dislocation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: dis=lo=ca=tion

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dislocation, n.
1 the act or result of dislocating.
2 Crystallog. the displacement of part of a crystal lattice structure.

Etymology

ME f. OF dislocation or med.L dislocatio f. dislocare (as DIS-, locare place)

THESAURUS

dislocation

abstraction, alienation, convulsion, derangement, detachment, disarrangement, disarticulation, disassociation, discomposure, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuity, disengagement, disjointing, disjunction, disorder, disorganization, disturbance, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, incoherence, insanity, isolation, luxation, misarrangement, parting, partition, perturbation, removal, segmentation, separation, separatism, shuffling, subdivision, subtraction, withdrawal, zoning

ROGET THESAURUS

dislocation

Disjunction

N disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.

Derangement

N derangement, disorder, evection, discomposure, disturbance, disorganization, deorganization, dislocation, perturbation, interruption, shuffling, inversion, corrugation, involvement, interchange, deranged, syncretic, syncretistic, mussy, messy, flaky, random, unordered.

Displacement

N displacement, elocation, transposition, ejectment, exile, removal, misplacement, dislocation, fish out of water, displaced, unplaced, unhoused, unharbored, unestablished, unsettled, houseless, homeless, out of place, out of a situation, in the wrong place, misplaced, out of its element.