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Location vs Dislocation - What's the difference?

location | dislocation |

As nouns the difference between location and dislocation

is that location is a particular point or place in physical space while dislocation is the act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.

location

Noun

(en noun)
  • A particular point or place in physical space.
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  • An act of locating.
  • * 1886 November 12, Joseph Church Helm, opinion, Pelican & Dives Min. Co. ''v.'' Snodgrass'', reprinted in, 1887, , volume 12, page 207 [http://google.com/books?id=1ss-AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA207&dq=location]:
  • The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.
  • (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
  • * 2011 , Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors, The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography (page 188)
  • It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations

    Synonyms

    * (a place) place

    Derived terms

    * geolocation

    Anagrams

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    dislocation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
  • (geology) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.
  • The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
  • (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.
  • (grammar)
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