Lexic.us

Definition of Disarrangement

1. Noun. A condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted.

Definition of Disarrangement

1. n. The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder.

Definition of Disarrangement

1. Noun. Upset of the normal order. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disarrangement

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disarrangement

Literary usage of Disarrangement

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Floral World and Garden Guide by Shirley Hibberd (1862)
"The chief evil to be guarded against ii the disarrangement of the drainage and consequent stagnation of moisture in the soil ; therefore means must be used ..."

2. Essays of an Ex-librarian by Richard Garnett (1901)
"... disappears rapidly; both symptoms of inextricable disarrangement in the machinery of the omnipotent paper-mill." "August 30, 1818. ..."

3. Reports on the Combustible Qualities of the Semi-anthracites of the Zerbes's by Augustus Allen Hayes, Henry Darwin Rogers (1851)
"the water to the boilers, and no leaks nor any disarrangement were allowed during the trials. By means of a metal-lined cistern, provided with an overflow ..."

4. Papers on Mechanical and Physical Subjects by Osborne Reynolds, Arthur William Brightmore, William Henry Moorby (1901)
"For while in the one case any slight disarrangement would be easily rectified, ... The small disarrangement is the immediate source of the break-down in the ..."

5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"... disorder, or disarrangement should be reported, in order that the power might be shut off before attempting to remedy or correct such defect, disorder, ..."

6. A Treatise on operative ophthalmic surgery by Henry Haynes Walton (1853)
"It may not be too arbitrary to speak of idiopathic trichiasis as occurring in two forms; in the one, as a disarrangement of the ..."

Other Resources: