disruption : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: disruption	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for disruption
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
disruption n an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account" Synonym(s): break, interruption, disruption, gap a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused" Synonym(s): disturbance, disruption, commotion, flutter, hurly burly, to-do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfuffle an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity Synonym(s): dislocation, disruption the act of causing disorder Synonym(s): disruption, perturbation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Disruption \Disrup"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.