0 the action of preventing something, especially a system, process, or event, from continuing as usual or as expected: --
1 an interruption in the usual way that a system, process, or event works: --
The country's dependence on imported merchandise made it vulnerable to supply disruptions, with shortages creating opportunities for ' profiteering ' by those with access to scarce goods.
Churches and preachers were also acutely aware of the social disruption, disorientation and disorder that could result from such rapid change in society.
Disruption in the expression pattern of one of many cell cycle regulators would have a deleterious effect on developmental potential.
Upon reaching the surface, the vacuoles were fused, leading to disruption of the apical region of syncytial tegument along the basement layer.
For example, antenatal appointments may need to be held close to school premises and timings changed to minimise disruption to the teenage woman's education.
Only relatively small sectors of those economies were integrated into the national or international economies, and of those only some suffered serious disruption.
This pattern of data is consistent with a possible dual route to cognitive disruption, one involving restraint the other involving emotion.
Towards the end of the eighteenth century, people began to see revolutions as emphatic disruptions of the past, as new points in a line.
