displacement
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From French déplacement.
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displacement (plural displacements)
- The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
- "Unnecessary displacement of funds." - Alexander Hamilton.
- "The displacement of the sun by parallax." - William Whewell.
- 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.
- (chemistry) 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.
- (fencing) Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
- (physics) A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
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the state of being displaced
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