disruption

n. upset; interruption, disturbance; division

Disruption generally refers to the normal workings of something being interrupted. In Scotland, the Disruption of 1843 refers to the divergence from the Church of Scotland of the Free Church of ScotlandDisruption as a method of execution pulling at all four limbs simultaneously with animals or machines so that the body of the execution victim is pulled apart.Information security specialists also may refer to a disaster as a disruption when an event interrupts normal business or technical processes.Disruption is also the term for the cancellation of an adoption of a child before it is legally completed. In common usage, though, it refers also to the legal procedure for ending an adoption already completed, which is technically known as dissolution.Disruption is a method of disabling an explosive device by shooting it with water at high velocity.See also Disruption (of schema) in evolutionary computingDisruption Law, proposed by Downes and Mui in their "Unleashing the killer app" book.Disruption is the work philosophy of TBWA\
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Noun
1. an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks"
(synonym) break, interruption, gap
(hypernym) delay, holdup
(hyponym) cut-in, insert
(derivation) interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off
2. a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"
(synonym) disturbance, commotion, stir, flutter, hurly burly, to-do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfuffle
(hypernym) disorder
(hyponym) convulsion, turmoil, upheaval
3. an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
(synonym) dislocation
(hypernym) interruption, break
4. the act of causing disorder
(synonym) perturbation
(hypernym) disturbance
(hyponym) dislocation, breakdown
(derivation) disrupt

(n.)
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.
  

Synonyms and related words:
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,