Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Dislocation \Dis`lo*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. dislocation.]
   1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
      --T. Burnet.

   2. (Geol.) 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. (Surg.) The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint;
      also, the condition of being thus displaced.

Source : WordNet®

dislocation
     n 1: an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
          [syn: {disruption}]
     2: the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to
        continue; "the social dislocations resulting from
        government policies"; "his warning came after the
        breakdown of talks in London" [syn: {breakdown}]
     3: a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal
        position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)