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Definition of 'displacement'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) displacement
the act of displacing.

2.  displacement
the state of being displaced or the amount or degree to which something is displaced.

3.  displacement
the linear or angular distance in a given direction between a body or point and a reference position.

4.  displacement
the distance of an oscillating body from its equilibrium position.

5.  displacement
the volume of the space through which a piston travels during a single stroke in an engine, pump, or the like.

6.  displacement
the weight or the volume of fluid displaced by a floating or submerged body, as a ship.

7.  displacement
the offset of rocks caused by movement along a fault.

8.  displacement
the transfer of an emotion from its original focus to another object, person, or situation.

Etymology: (1605–15)

Definition of 'displacement'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) supplanting, displacement
act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics

2. (noun) shift, displacement
an event in which something is displaced without rotation

3. (noun) translation, displacement
the act of uniform movement

4. (noun) displacement, displacement reaction
(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound

5. (noun) displacement
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one

6. (noun) displacement, deracination
to move something from its natural environment

7. (noun) displacement
act of removing from office or employment

Definition of 'displacement'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) displacement
the act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place

2. (noun) displacement
the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body

3. (noun) displacement
the process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent

Translation of 'displacement'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to take the place of The dog had displaced her doll in the little girl's affections.
Afrikaans: verskuiwing, verplasing,	Arabic: تَغيير مَكان الشَيء، إزاح	Bulgarian: преместване
Brazilian: deslocamento	Czech: přemístění; odstranění; n	German: die Verdrängung
Danish: erstatning; fortrængning	Greek: μετατόπιση, εκτόπισμα	Spanish: desplazamiento, reemplazo
Estonian: teisaldamine, asendamine	Farsi: جا به جایی؛ تغییر مکان	Finnish: syrjäytys
French: déplacement, remplacement	Hebrew: תְפִיסָת מְקוֹמוֹ	Hindi: उद्वासन, विस्थापन
Croatian: premještaj	Hungarian: elmozdulás	Indonesian: penggantian
Icelandic: tilfærsla	Italian: spostamento; sostituzione	Japanese: 置き換え
Korean: 옮김, 대체	Lithuanian: perstatymas, pakeitimas	Latvian: pārvietošana; izspiešana;
Malay: perubahan	Dutch: verplaatsing, vervanging	Norwegian: fortrengning; forflytning
Polish: przemieszczenie	Persian: جا به جایی؛ تغییر مکان	Pashto: ځای پر ځای شوی
Portuguese: deslocação	Romanian: deplasare;înlocuire	Russian: перестановка;вытеснение
Slovak: nahradenie	Slovenian: nadomestitev	Serbian: premeštanje
Swedish: omflyttning, rubbning, er	Thai: การย้ายออก; การเคลื่อนออก	Turkish: yer değiştirme, yerini al
Taiwanese: 挪移，取代	Ukrainian: зміщення, переставляння	Urdu: جگہ سے اکھاڑنے کا عمل
Vietnamese: sự đổi chỗ	Chinese: 移置，取代
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