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Displacement

Displacement Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Displacement? [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 Synonyms \| Synonyms for Displacement: deracination \| displacement reaction \| shift \| supplanting \| translation Related Terms \| Find terms related to Displacement: agency \| alienation \| amotion \| autism \| autistic thinking \| avatar \| avoidance mechanism \| banishment \| blame-shifting \| cashiering \| catabolism \| catalysis \| change \| commutation \| compensation \| consubstantiation \| decompensation \| deconsecration \| defense mechanism \| defrocking \| delegation \| delocalization \| deportation \| deposal \| deposition \| deprivation \| deputation \| deputyship \| deracination \| dereism \| dereistic thinking \| dethronement \| disarrangement \| disarticulation \| disbarment \| disbarring \| discontinuity \| discrownment \| disenthronement \| disjointing \| dislocation \| dismissal \| dissociation \| Doppler effect \| draft \| emotional insulation \| escape \| escape into fantasy \| escape mechanism \| escapism \| exchange \| excommunication \| expulsion \| fantasizing \| fantasy \| firing \| flight \| forced resignation \| forcible shift \| heterotopia \| impeachment \| incoherence \| isolation \| kicking upstairs \| liquidation \| luxation \| metabolism \| metagenesis \| metamorphism \| metamorphosis \| metastasis \| metathesis \| metempsychosis \| movement \| moving \| mutant \| mutated form \| mutation \| negativism \| ostracism \| ousting \| overcompensation \| overthrow \| overthrowal \| pensioning off \| permutation \| power of attorney \| projection \| psychotaxis \| purge \| quid pro quo \| rationalization \| red shift \| reincarnation \| relegation \| relocation \| remotion \| removal \| removement \| replacement \| representation \| resistance \| retirement \| ripping out \| shift \| sinkage \| sociological adjustive reactions \| sport \| sublimation \| submergence \| submersion \| subrogation \| substitution \| superannuation \| supersedence \| superseding \| supersedure \| supersession \| supplantation \| supplanting \| supplantment \| suspension \| switch \| tit for tat \| transanimation \| transfiguration \| transfigurement \| transformation \| transformism \| translation \| translocation \| transmigration \| transmogrification \| transmutation \| transposition \| transubstantiation \| unchurching \| unfrocking \| unhinging \| unjointing \| unseating \| uprooting \| vicariousness \| wishful thinking \| wish-fulfillment fantasy \| withdrawal See Also \| amplitude \| chemical reaction \| defence \| defence mechanism \| defence reaction \| defense \| defense mechanism \| defense reaction \| luxation \| motion \| move \| movement \| reaction \| rejection \| replacement \| replacing \| translation Displacement In Webster's Dictionary \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.

Displacement Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Displacement?

[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

Displacement In Webster's Dictionary

\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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