displacement

Meaning

1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
2. The weight of a ship or other floating vessel, traditionally measured or calculated by finding the volume of the vessel below the waterline when afloat, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the whole displacing body.
3. 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.
4. Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
5. A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
6. 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).
7. The transfer of feelings or emotions from their intended recipient to another object or person.
8. The amount of liquid displaced by a submerged object.
9. The transfer of electricity along tubes of induction and thereby polarizing a dielectric.
10. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of engine displacement.

Synonyms

dislocation

shift

replacement

removal

substitution

transposition

movement

supplanting

migration

motion

transference

transfer

metathesis

translation

shifting

output

travel

deracination

displacement reaction

deviation

move

offset

derangement

transition

remove

excursion

translocation

eviction

electric induction

departure

ectopia

drift

damage

banishment

dispersion

disorganization

consideration

dismissal

dislodgement

compensation

aversion

alienation

moving

discharge

capacity

misplacement

outage

mismatch

passage

misalignment

Translations

déplacement

desplazamiento

Verschiebung

deslocamento

desplaçament

spostamento

spazio

μετατόπιση

εκτόπισμα

dislocazione

Distanz

Bewegung

Abstand

Dislokation

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪsˈpleɪsmɪnt/

Etymology

From French déplacement. Morphologically displace + -ment.