noun
- An act of delaying or interrupting the continuity.
- usage: "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account"
- synonyms: break, interruption, gap
- A disorderly outburst or tumult.
- usage: "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"
- synonyms: disturbance, commotion, flutter, hurly burly, to-do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfuffle
- An event that results in a displacement or discontinuity.
- synonyms: dislocation
- The act of causing disorder.
- synonyms: perturbation
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