Definition of Displacement

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Displacement

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 Quotations

The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.
Judith Butler

In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.
Walter Kohn

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
Atom Egoyan

Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest.
Pieter Zeeman

Displacement Translations

displacement in German is relative Adresse, Abstand, Abstand {m}, Distanz
displacement in Italian is spazio
displacement in Norwegian is forskyvning
displacement in Spanish is desplazamiento


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