Displacement
WordNet
noun
(1) Act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
(2) Act of removing from office or employment
(3) To move something from its natural environment
(4) The act of uniform movement
(5) An event in which something is displaced without rotation
(6) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
(7) (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
WiktionaryText
Noun
- The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
- "Unnecessary displacement of funds." - Alexander Hamilton.
- "The displacement of the sun by parallax." - William Whewell.
- 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.
- 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.
- Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
- A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.