The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
The quantity of a liquid displaced by a floating body, as water by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.
The process of extractingsoluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturatedsolvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent.
A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
The capability of a communication system to refer to things that are not present (that existed or will exist at another time, or that exist at another location).
Origin
From French déplacement. Morphologically displace + -ment.
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