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Displacement Definition And Meaning |
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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.
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