dislocation
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dislocation /ˌdɪslə(ʊ)ˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/
▶noun
- 1 the process of dislocating or the state of being dislocated.
- 2 Crystallography a displacement of part of a crystal lattice structure.
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