Displacement
[dɪs'pleɪsm(ə)nt] or [dɪs'plesmənt]
Definition
(noun.) act of removing from office or employment.
(noun.) to move something from its natural environment.
(noun.) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one.
(noun.) (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound.
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Definition
(n.) The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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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Examples
- To walk involves a displacement and reaction of the resisting earth, whose thrill is felt wherever there is matter. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The latest type of super-dreadnaught for the United States Navy, with a displacement of 27,500 tons and engines of 28,000 horse-power. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The length of the Great Eastern was 692 feet, beam 83 feet, depth 57? feet, draft 25? feet, displacement 27,000 tons, and speed 12 knots. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- She is 400 feet 6 inches long, 64 feet 8 inches breadth, 24 feet draft, 9,215 tons displacement. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The amount of work done depends upon the force used and the distance covered (sometimes called displacement), and hence we can say that Work = force multiplied by distance, or _W = f × d_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The reason of her sudden displacement now appeared. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The deviation or displacement caused by glass as thin as window panes is too slight to be noticed, and we are not conscious that objects are out of position. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- As in other arts, the distress caused by the displacement of hand-labour by machinery is local and temporary. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This was 118 feet long by 8 feet 3 inches beam, 106 tons surface and 168 submerged displacement. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Her length is 348 feet, beam 69? feet, draft 24 feet, displacement 10,288 tons, maximum speed 16. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Slight displacements of the raging sea, made by the falling wounded. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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