To separate physical objects, typically a machine and its operator. Moving information processing apparatus to a location remote from its operator, or vice versa. As opposed to colocate.
Discolocate: The company figures it will save half a million dollars a year by discolocating the engineering computers from the processing center in Bangalore.
1. to put out of place; put out of proper relative position; displace: The glacier dislocated great stones.
2. to put out of joint or out of position, as a limb or an organ.
3. to throw out of order; upset; disorder: Frequent strikes dislocated the economy.