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