dis·place·ment
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| 1. | the act of displacing. |
| 2. | the state of being displaced or the amount or degree to which something is displaced. |
| 3. | Physics.
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| 4. | Machinery, Automotive.
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| 5. | Nautical. the amount of water that a vessel displaces, expressed in displacement tons. |
| 6. | Geology. the offset of rocks caused by movement along a fault. |
| 7. | Psychoanalysis. the transfer of an emotion from its original focus to another object, person, or situation. |
| 8. | electric displacement. |
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| displacement | |
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| 1. | act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics [syn: supplanting] |
| 2. | an event in which something is displaced without rotation [syn: shift] |
| 3. | the act of uniform movement [syn: translation] |
| 4. | (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound |
| 5. | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one |
| 6. | to move something from its natural environment |
| 7. | act of removing from office or employment |
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displacement
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displacement dis·place·ment (dĭs-plās'mənt)
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- Removal from the normal location or position.
- A defense mechanism in which there is an unconscious shift of emotions, affect, or desires from the original object to a more acceptable or immediate substitute.
- A chemical reaction in which an atom, a radical, or a molecule replaces another in a compound.
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Main Entry: dis·place·ment
Pronunciation: -'plA-sm&nt
Function: noun
1 a : the act or process of removing something from its usualor proper place or the state resulting from this : DISLOCATION
2 : the quantity in which or the degree to which something isdisplaced
3 a : the redirection of an emotion or impulse from its original object (as an idea or person) to something that is more acceptable b :
| Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc. |
Displacement
Dis*place"ment\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]placement.]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's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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