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1. An event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
   - disruption
    
2. The act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
   "the social dislocations resulting from government policies"
   - breakdown
    
3. A displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)

Derived forms: dislocations

See also: dislocate

Type of: break, disruption, harm, hurt, injury, interruption, perturbation, trauma

Encyclopedia: Dislocation