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Definition of Displacement

1. Noun. Act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics.

2. Noun. An event in which something is displaced without rotation.

3. Noun. The act of uniform movement.

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

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

6. Noun. To move something from its natural environment.

7. Noun. Act of removing from office or employment.

Definition of Displacement

1. n. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.

Definition of Displacement

1. Noun. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place. ¹

2. Noun. 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. ¹

3. Noun. (chemistry) 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. ¹

4. Noun. (fencing) Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging. ¹

5. Noun. (physics) A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component. ¹

6. Noun. (grammar) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Displacement

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Medical Definition of Displacement

1. 1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place. 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. 2. The process by which an emotional or behavioural response that is appropriate for one situation appears in another situation for which it is inappropriate. 3. 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. 4. Piston displacement, the volume of the space swept through, or weight of steam, water, etc, displaced, in a given time, by the piston of a steam engine or pump. Origin: Cf. F. Deplacement. Source: Websters Dictionary (03 Jul 1999)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Displacement

dispise dispised dispises dispising dispiteous dispiteously dispiteousness displace displaceability displaceable

displaced displaced-person displaced fracture displaced person displaced persons displacement (current term) displacement analysis displacement loop displacement reaction displacement threshold

displacement ton displacement tons displacement unit displacements displacements per atom displacencies displacency displacer displacers displaces

Literary usage of Displacement

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mechanics: A Textbook for Engineers by James Ellsworth Boyd (1921)
"The distance from the initial position to the final position is the displacement of the body. displacement is generally measured relative to the earth. ..."

2. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1892)
"This equation is true only if we take u, v, and w as the components of that electric flow which is due to the variation of electric displacement as well as ..."

3. Analytical Mechanics for Engineers by Fred B. Seely, Newton Edward Ensign (1921)
"The unit of displacement is any convenient unit of length, ... It will be noted, however, that displacement is a directed distance or length, that is, ..."

4. The Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism by James Hopwood Jeans (1908)
"displacement CURRENTS. GENERAL EQUATIONS. I The answer to this question has been provided by Maxwell. According to Maxwell's displacement theory (§ 171), ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1874)
"Note on displacement of the Solar Spectrum." By JHN HENNESSEY, FRAS Communicated by Professor GG STOKES, Sec. RS Received December 15, 1873. ..."

6. A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity by Augustus Edward Hough Love (1906)
"displacement. We have, in every case, to distinguish two states of a body—a first state, and a second state. The particles of the body pass from their ..."

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