Uk English Meaning of displacement

displacement

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Definitions and Meaning of displacement in English

Wordnet

displacement (n)

act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics

an event in which something is displaced without rotation

the act of uniform movement

(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one

to move something from its natural environment

act of removing from office or employment

Webster

displacement (n.)

The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.

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.

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displacement

act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics, an event in which something is displaced without rotation, the act of uniform movement,

deportation,expulsion,banishment,dispersion,emigration,Exile,migration,diaspora,Ejection,Evacuation

return,immigration,repatriation

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