dislocation

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.

   “Let's hope someone can get an original Spanish print for U.S. distribution; the redubbed Mexican version shown at the Festival does a disservice to the fine performances by its slight (but annoying) dislocations of sound and image.”

2. isim The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied.
3. isim The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.

   “They used steroids to build strength but, more importantly, to recover from strains, pulls, dislocations.”

4. isim A linear defect in a crystal lattice. Because dislocations can shift within the crystal lattice, they tend to weaken the material, compared to a perfect crystal.
5. isim A sentence structure in which a constituent that could otherwise be either an argument or an adjunct of a clause occurs outside of and adjacent to the clause boundaries.
6. isim In men's gymnastics, a rotating of the shoulders when performing a backwards turn on the still rings. Many skills in acrobatics appear to involve dislocating a joint, when they actually do not.

   “The practice of contortion can be divided into three categories: backbending, frontbending and dislocation.”