1939 December, Mercury, “The British War Emergency Timetables, October, 1939”, inRailway Magazine, page373:
As mentioned last month in the article "Railways and the War," the emergency timetables were planned in view of the possibility of seriousdislocation of transport by air raids in the early days of the war, and were regarded as the minimum service which would keep the activities of the country alive.
1961 December, “Planning the London Midland main-line electrification”, inTrains Illustrated, page722:
At large stations such as Euston and Birmingham New Street, it is essential to compress the station reconstruction, re-signalling and overhead wiring into the shortest possible time, not only to minimise the period of trafficdislocation but also to ensure completion by the time the remainder of the lines is electrified.
1986 February 1, Nicholas Deutsch, “7th Annual New York Gay Film Festival”, inGay Community News, volume13, number28, page 8:
Let's hope someone can get an original Spanish print for U.S. distribution; the redubbed Mexican version shown at the Festival does a disservice to the fine performances by its slight (but annoying)dislocations of sound and image.
(geology) The displacement of parts ofrocks or portions ofstrata from the situation which they originally occupied.
2010,Peter Corris,Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page162:
They used steroids to build strength but, more importantly, to recover from strains, pulls,dislocations.
(materials science) Alineardefect in acrystallattice. Because dislocations can shift within the crystal lattice, they tend to weaken the material, compared to a perfect crystal.
(grammar) Asentencestructure in which aconstituent that could otherwise be either an argument or an adjunct of aclause occurs outside of and adjacent to the clause boundaries.
(gymnastics,dance) 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.
2016, Louis Patrick Leroux, Charles R. Batson,Cirque Global: Quebec's Expanding Circus Boundaries, McGill-Queen's Press,→ISBN,page297:
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