displacement
English
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “displacement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French déplacement.
Pronunciation
Noun
displacement (plural displacements)
- The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
- (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Hamilton
- Unnecessary displacement of funds.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Whewell.
- The displacement of the sun by parallax.
- (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Hamilton
- The quantity of a liquid displaced by a floating body, as water 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.
- (grammar) The capability of a communication system to refer to things that are not present (that existed or will exist at another time, or that exist at another location).
Translations
the state of being displaced
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the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship
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physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
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See also
Displacement (linguistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
