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Disruption   /dɪsrˈəpʃən/   Listen
Disruption

noun
1.
An act of delaying or interrupting the continuity.  Synonyms: break, gap, interruption.  "There was a gap in his account"
2.
A disorderly outburst or tumult.  Synonyms: commotion, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do.
3.
An event that results in a displacement or discontinuity.  Synonym: dislocation.
4.
The act of causing disorder.  Synonym: perturbation.






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... biological diversity; the relative number of species, diverse in form and function, at the genetic, organism, community, and ecosystem level; loss of biodiversity reduces an ecosystem's ability to recover from natural or man-induced disruption. ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... most afflicted ones civil government for a time has virtually broken down. Both the great need for food and clothing and the overthrowing of conventions, customs and habits are responsible for the change. Here we perceive a notable example of the almost instantaneous disruption ...
— Crime: Its Cause and Treatment • Clarence Darrow

... In the East other centers of resistance had sprung up in Navarre, Aragon and the County of Barcelona. At the beginning of the eleventh century the tide turned. The progress of the reconquest was due as much to the disruption of Moorish unity as to the greater aggressiveness and closer cooeperation of the Christian kingdoms. The end of the Caliphate of Cordova was the signal for the rise of a great number of mutually independent Moorish states. Sixty years later ...
— The Lay of the Cid • R. Selden Rose and Leonard Bacon

... numbers and their crowded and swift movement deprived them of that possibility and rendered it not only difficult but impossible for the Russians to stop this movement, to which the French were directing all their energies. Beyond a certain limit no mechanical disruption of the body could hasten ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy

... materialistic and spiritualistic schools, and was only carried one step further by the Sophists, who maintained that even the being of things depended on the thinker. This necessarily led to skepticism, individualism, and disruption of the old social ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 2 • Charles Dudley Warner


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