'Disruption' definitions:
Definition of 'disruption'
(from WordNet)
noun
An act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account" [syn: break, interruption, disruption, gap]
noun
A disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused" [syn: disturbance, disruption, commotion, flutter, hurly burly, to-do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfuffle]
noun
An event that results in a displacement or discontinuity [syn: dislocation, disruption]
noun
The act of causing disorder [syn: disruption, perturbation]
Definition of 'Disruption'
From: GCIDE
- Disruption \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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'disruption'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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