An event that results in a displacement or discontinuity.

synonym: disruption.

Roget 44: disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement; discontinuity etc. 70; abjunction^†; cataclasm^†; inconnection^†; abstraction, abstractedness; isolation; insularity, insulation; oasis; island; separateness etc. adj.; severalty; disjecta membra [Lat.]; dispersion etc. 73; apportionment etc. 786.    separation; parting etc. v.; circumcision; detachment, segregation; divorce, sejunction^†, seposition^†, diduction^†, diremption^†, discerption^†; elision; caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture; compartition^†; dismemberment, dislocation; luxation^†; severance, disseverance; scission; rescission, abscission; laceration, dilaceration^†; disruption, abruption^†; avulsion^†, divulsion^†; section, resection, cleavage; fission; partibility^†, separability.    fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision.    dissection anatomy; decomposition etc. 49; cutting instrument etc. (sharpness) 253; buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw.    separatist.    ... show more

Roget 61: derangement etc. v.; disorder etc. 59; evection^†, discomposure, disturbance; disorganization, deorganization^†; dislocation; perturbation, interruption; shuffling etc. v.; inversion etc. 218; corrugation etc. (fold) 258; involvement.    interchange etc. 148.    ... show more

Roget 185: displacement, elocation^†, transposition.    ejectment etc. 297^†; exile etc. (banishment) 893; removal etc. (transference) 270.    misplacement, dislocation etc. 61; fish out of water.    ... show more

Polish: dyslokacja

The act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue:
— The social dislocations resulting from government policies.

synonym: breakdown.

A displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column).

Dutch: luxatie, ontwrichting, ontzetting
Polish: zwichnięcie, zwichnięcie stawu