dislocation > define

noun

• An event that results in a displacement or discontinuity.
  • synonyms: disruption
• The act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue.
  • usage: "the social dislocations resulting from government policies"; "his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London"
  • synonyms: breakdown
• A displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column. ).

• (n.) The act of displacing or the state of being displaced.
• (n.) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.
• (n.) The act of dislocating or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.