dislocation

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.

   смеще́ниеsmeščénije

2. (countable, uncountable)The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied.

3. (countable, uncountable)The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.

   Verrenkung, Luxation

   вы́вихvývix

   ви́вихvývyx, звихzvyx

4. (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)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.

1. Tom has a posterior hip dislocation.

   deTom hat eine hintere Hüftluxation.

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