Meaning of DISRUPTION
| Pronunciation: | | dis'rupshun
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- [n] an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks"
- [n] the act of causing disorder
- [n] an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
- [n] a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"
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| | Synonyms: | | break, commotion, dislocation, disturbance, flutter, gap, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, interruption, kerfuffle, perturbation, stir, to-do, turmoil |
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| | See Also: | | abruption, barracking, break, breakdown, breaking off, delay, dislocation, disorder, disturbance, garboil, heckling, holdup, incident, interjection, interpellation, interpolation, interposition, interruption, storm, storm center, storm centre, surprisal, surprise, tempest, tumult, tumultuousness, uproar | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis*rup"tion\, n. [L. disruptio, diruptio.]
The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent
asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration;
rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake;
disruption of a state.
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| | Related Terms: | | alienation, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, antinomianism, badness, bloodbath, blue ruin, breach, breach of friendship, break, breakup, carnage, chaos, cleavage, cleft, confusion, consumption, crack-up, criminal syndicalism, damnation, decimation, depredation, derangement, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, devastation, diffusion, disaffection, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, discourtesy, disfavor, disharmony, dishevelment, disintegration, disjunction, disorder, disorderliness, disorderly conduct, disorganization, dispersal, disproportion, disruptiveness, dissolution, disturbance, disunion, disunity, divergence, dividedness, division, entropy, estrangement, exfoliation, falling-out, fragmentation, frowned-upon behavior, haphazardness, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, hooliganism, horseplay, impropriety, incoherence, indiscriminateness, inharmonious harmony, irregularity, lynch law, misbehavior, misconduct, misdemeanor, misdoing, misrule, mob law, mob rule, mobocracy, most admired disorder, naughtiness, nihilism, nonsanctioned behavior, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, ochlocracy, open rupture, perdition, perturbation, primal chaos, promiscuity, promiscuousness, randomness, ravage, rebellion, recall of ambassadors, revolution, rift, roughhouse, rowdiness, rowdyism, ruffianism, ruin, ruination, rupture, scaling, scattering, schism, separation, shambles, shattering, slaughter, split, spoliation, syndicalism, tohubohu, turbulence, turmoil, undoing, unruliness, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upset, vandalism, venial sin, vice, waste, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck, wrongdoing |
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