Dislocation

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Dislocation ("change of position") means:

  • In medicine, a displacement or twisting of bones or bone parts against each other, see dislocation (medicine) , or rarely a pathological displacement of organs, see ectopia
  • in geology a disruption of rock packages
  • in crystallography, materials science and solid state physics another word for dislocation (material science) (also in English dislocation )
  • in the military the division of troops, see deployment
  • in linguistics a marked sentence order, see topicalization