Definitions for dislocation

dislocation dis·lo·ca·tion

Spelling: [dis-loh-key-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌdɪs loʊˈkeɪ ʃən/

Dislocation is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 937 anagrams from letters in dislocation (acdiilnoost).

Definitions for dislocation

noun

  1. an act or instance of dislocating.
  2. the state of being dislocated.
  3. Crystallography. (in a crystal lattice) a line about which there is a discontinuity in the lattice structure. Compare defect (def 3).

Origin of dislocation

1350-1400; Middle English dislocacioun; see dislocate, -ion

Examples for dislocation

That dislocation takes a physical shape in a series of stories about a man who finds a talking severed head.

This picture might well exemplify the dislocation between old and new in the movement of the dress and the stasis of the dancer.

There's a compound fracture above the knee, and a dislocation below.

And yet what a change of view produced by it, what a dislocation of judgment!

This ligament is ruptured in certain severe cases of dislocation of the hip.

Admirable, too, is the Hippocratic description of dislocation of the shoulder and of the jaw.

There was no dislocation, the doctors told her, but a very bad wrench.

Nine years later, after the turmoil of war and dislocation, that number had risen (slightly) to 1,162,100.

One feels the same sense of dislocation reading Zweig, his world is indeed a “world of yesterday”.

During the height of the crisis, Westergaard described the disorientation and dislocation of living under guard.

Word Value for dislocation
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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