dislocation Meaning and Definition
1. n. the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
2. n. an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
3. n. a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)
In materials science, a dislocation is a crystallographic defect, or irregularity, within a crystal structure.
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