1. Noun
The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
2. Noun
The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.
3. Noun
The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
4. Noun
a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)
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