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displacement
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As a noun, displacement means the act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
Meanings of displacement
13 meaningsnoun
The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
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.
chemistryThe 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.
fencingMoving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
physicsA vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
grammarThe 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).
Act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
Similar: supplantingAn event in which something is displaced without rotation
Similar: shiftThe act of uniform movement
Similar: translation(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
Similar: displacement reaction(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
To move something from its natural environment
Similar: deracinationAct of removing from office or employment
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).