Meaning of DISPLACEMENT
| Pronunciation: | | dis'pleysmunt
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- [n] act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
- [n] act of removing from office or employment
- [n] to move something from its natural environment
- [n] the act of uniform movement
- [n] an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- [n] (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
- [n] (chemistry) a chemical reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
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| | Synonyms: | | deracination, displacement reaction, shift, supplanting, translation |
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| | See Also: | | amplitude, chemical reaction, defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defense mechanism, defense reaction, luxation, motion, move, movement, reaction, rejection, replacement, replacing, translation | |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis*place"ment\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]placement.]
1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a
putting out of place.
Unnecessary displacement of funds. --A. Hamilton.
The displacement of the sun by parallax. --Whewell.
2. 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. (Chem.) 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.
{Piston displacement} (Mech.), 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.
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| | Definition: | | the situation in which one animal can cause another to move away from food, a sitting place, etc. |
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