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   displacement

   /dɪsˈpleɪsm(ə)nt/

   noun

   • 1. the action of moving something from its place or position: "vertical displacement of the shoreline"
   • ▪ the removal of someone or something by someone or something else which takes their place: "males may be able to resist displacement by other males"
   • ▪ the enforced departure of people from their homes, typically because of war, persecution, or natural disaster: "the displacement of farmers by guerrilla activity"
   • ▪ the amount by which a thing is moved from a position: "a displacement of 6.8 metres along the San Andreas fault"
   • 2. the occupation by a submerged body or part of a body of a volume which would otherwise be occupied by a fluid.
   • ▪ the volume or weight of fluid that would fill the volume displaced by a floating ship, used as a measure of the ship's size: "the submarine has a surface displacement of 2,185 tons"
   • ▪ the volume swept by a reciprocating system, as in a pump or engine: technical "a fixed displacement gear"
   • 3. the unconscious transfer of an intense emotion from one object to another: "this phobia was linked with the displacement of fear of his father"
   • 4. the component of an electric field due to free separated charges, regardless of any polarizing effects.
   • ▪ the vector representing such a component.
   • ▪ the flux density of such an electric field.

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