Usually means: Sudden, unexpected changes affecting systems.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. shocks: Merriam-Webster
  2. shocks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. shocks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Shock's, Shocks, shocks: Wordnik
  5. shocks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Shocks, shocks: Wiktionary
  7. shocks: Dictionary.com
  8. shocks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Shocks: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. shocks: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. shocks: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shocks: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shocks: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. shocks: Medical dictionary

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  1. shocks: Idioms

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  1. shocks: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Shock)

noun:  A sudden, heavy impact.
noun:  (figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.
noun:  (psychology) A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance.
noun:  (medicine) Electric shock, a sudden burst of electrical energy hitting a person or animal.
noun:  (psychology) A state of distress following a mental or emotional disturbance, often caused by news or other stimuli.
noun:  (medicine) Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
noun:  (physics) A shock wave.
noun:  (automotive, mechanical engineering) A shock absorber (typically in the suspension of a vehicle).
noun:  (mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
noun:  A chemical added to a swimming pool to moderate the chlorine levels.
adjective:  Causing intense surprise, horror, etc.; unexpected and shocking.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset.
verb:  (transitive) To give an electric shock to.
verb:  (transitive) To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To meet with a shock; to collide in a violent encounter.
verb:  (transitive) To add a chemical to (a swimming pool) to moderate the chlorine levels.
verb:  (geology, transitive) To deform the crystal structure of a stone by the application of extremely high pressure at moderate temperature, as produced only by hypervelocity impact events, lightning strikes, and nuclear explosions.
noun:  An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.
noun:  (commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
noun:  (by extension) A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.
noun:  (obsolete) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.
verb:  (transitive) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.
noun:  A surname.
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