displacement

  1. Noun.  The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Noun.  (fencing) Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
  5. Noun.  (physics) A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
  6. Noun.  (grammar) (rfdef, lang en) .

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