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What is the noun for dislocating?

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dislocation
  1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
  2. (geology) 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. The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
  4. (materials) 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. (grammar) 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. For example, the sentance, "My father, he is a good man", is a left dislocation because the constituent "My father" has been moved to the left of the clause "he is a good man". See dislocation.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “It's almost as if we experience an unease, a dislocation, because our freedom to move somewhere else is temporarily suspended.”
      “The dislocation is reduced at the hospital in Taos, but there are so many broken bones that I'll need surgery.”
      “There is, when it comes to the arts, a massive dislocation between word and deed.”
dislocator
  1. Something that dislocates
dislocations
  1. plural of dislocation
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Troops demonstrated their first aid skills, showing Prince Charles how they have been learning to cope with dislocations and breaks.”
      “When these steels are nitrided the aluminum forms AlN particles, which strain the ferrite lattice and create strengthening dislocations.”
      “Shoulder dislocations are generally confirmed with radiographs, reduced, and radiographed again to confirm the reduction.”
dislocators
  1. plural of dislocator
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