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Displacement

dɪsˈpleɪsm(ə)nt

Displacement definitions
noun
displacement displacements
  1. the action of moving something from its place or position

    "vertical displacement of the shoreline"

    • the removal of someone or something by someone or something else which takes their place

      "males may be able to resist displacement by other males"

    • the enforced departure of people from their homes, typically because of war, persecution, or natural disaster

      "the displacement of farmers by guerrilla activity"

    • the amount by which a thing is moved from a position

      "a displacement of 6.8 metres along the San Andreas fault"

  2. the occupation by a submerged body or part of a body of a volume which would otherwise be occupied by a fluid
    • the volume or weight of fluid that would fill the volume displaced by a floating ship, used as a measure of the ship's size

      "the submarine has a surface displacement of 2,185 tons"

    • the volume swept by a reciprocating system, as in a pump or engine

      "a fixed displacement gear"

  3. the unconscious transfer of an intense emotion from one object to another

    "this phobia was linked with the displacement of fear of his father"

  4. the component of an electric field due to free separated charges, regardless of any polarizing effects
    • the vector representing such a component
    • the flux density of such an electric field