Disruption
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Disruption is the interruption of normal work or practice.
- In ScotlandScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, the Disruption of 1843Disruption of 1843The Disruption of 1843 was a schism within the established Church of Scotland, in which 450 ministers of the Church broke away, over the issue of the Church's relationship with the State, to form the Free Church of Scotland...
refers to the divergence from the Church of ScotlandChurch of ScotlandThe Church of Scotland, known informally by its Scots language name, the Kirk, is a Presbyterian church, decisively shaped by the Scottish Reformation....
of the Free Church of ScotlandFree Church of Scotland (1843-1900)The Free Church of Scotland is a Scottish denomination which was formed in 1843 by a large withdrawal from the established Church of Scotland in a schism known as the "Disruption of 1843"... - 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 DismembermentDismembermentDismemberment is the act of cutting, tearing, pulling, wrenching or otherwise removing, the limbs of a living thing. It may be practiced upon human beings as a form of capital punishment, as a result of a traumatic accident, or in connection with murder, suicide, or cannibalism...
- Information securityInformation securityInformation security means protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording or destruction....
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 adoptionAdoptionAdoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting for another and, in so doing, permanently transfers all rights and responsibilities from the original parent or parents...
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 dissolutionDissolution (law)In law, dissolution has multiple meanings.Dissolution is the last stage of liquidation, the process by which a company is brought to an end, and the assets and property of the company redistributed....
. - 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
- Law of disruption, 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 disruptionCell disruptionCell disruption is a method or process for releasing biological molecules from inside a cell.- Choice of disruption method:The production of biologically-interesting molecules using cloning and culturing methods allows the study and manufacture of relevant molecules.Except for excreted molecules,...
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 morphogenesisMorphogenesisMorphogenesis , is the biological process that causes an organism to develop its shape...
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