displacement
- Noun. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
- Noun. 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.
- Noun. (chemistry) 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.
- Noun. (fencing) Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
- Noun. (physics) A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
- Noun. (grammar) (rfdef, lang en) .
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