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Webster 1913 Edition
Displacement
Dis-place′ment
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
déplacement
.] 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Displacement
DISPLACEMENT
,Noun.
The displacement of the centers of the circles.
Unnecessary displacement of funds.
Definition 2024
displacement
displacement
English
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 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.
- (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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