disruption > define
noun
- An act of delaying or interrupting the continuity.
- usage: "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account"
- synonyms: break, interruption, gap
- A disorderly outburst or tumult.
- usage: "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"
- synonyms: disturbance, commotion, flutter, hurly burly, to-do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfuffle
- An event that results in a displacement or discontinuity.
- synonyms: dislocation
- The act of causing disorder.
- synonyms: perturbation
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(n.) The act or rending asunder or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary