[{"word":"dislocation","phonetic":"/dɪsləʊˈkeɪʃən/","phonetics":[{"text":"/dɪsləʊˈkeɪʃən/","audio":""},{"audio":"https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/dislocation-us.mp3","sourceUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=196479","license":{"name":"BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"}}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(materials) 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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(grammar) 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. For example, the sentence, \"My father, he is a good man\", is a left dislocation because the constituent \"My father\" has been moved to the left of the clause \"he is a good man\". See dislocation.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dislocation"]}]