dislocation

noun6

1. •
   The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
2. •
   The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied.
3. •
   The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.

   • They used steroids to build strength but, more importantly, to recover from strains, pulls, dislocations. — 2010
4. •
   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. •
   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.

   • The practice of contortion can be divided into three categories: backbending, frontbending and dislocation. — 2016
6. •
   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.