What’s Disruption?

disruption (plural disruptions)

An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.
- The network created a disruption in the show when they broke in with a newscast.
A continuing act of disorder
- There was great disruption in the classroom when the teacher left.

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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 Scotland
Disruption is 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 – see Dismemberment
Information security specialists also may refer to a disaster as a disruption when an event interrupts normal business or technical processes.
Disruption (of adoption) 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 asdissolution.
Disruption is a method of disabling an explosive device by shooting it with water at high velocity.
See also Disruption (of schema) in evolutionary computing
Disruption Law, proposed by Downes and Mui in their « Unleashing the killer app » book.
Disruptive innovation is Clayton Christensen‘s theory of industry disruption by new technology or products.
Cell disruption is a method or process in cell biology for releasing biological molecules from inside a cell.
Disruptions in embryology are the result of an extrinsic disturbance in morphogenesis.