Violation

Violation or violations can mean:

• Law violation
• Violation (basketball), the most minor class of an illegal action in basketball
• Bipolar violation, when two pulses of the same polarity occur without an intervening pulse of the opposite polarity in telecommunications
• Building violation, when a hazardous or non-hazardous condition occurs in a real estate property, without a permit, issued by a municipal agency, such as a Department of Buildings
• Storage violation, when a task modifies or attempts to modify computer storage that it does not own
• Desecration, the act of depriving something of its sacred character

Sciences

• CP violation, in particle physics a violation of the postulated CP-symmetry
• Lorentz violation, a violation of Lorentz symmetry
• Violation paradigm, a scientific method where the scientist perturbs an expected factor to see subjects' reactions

Proper name

• Violation (album), a 1977 album by American hard rock band Starz
• "Violations" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), an episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation