Definitions for dislocations

dislocations dis·lo·ca·tion

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

Dislocations is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 1099 anagrams from letters in dislocations (acdiilnoosst).

Definitions for dislocations

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 dislocations

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

Examples for dislocations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for dislocations
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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