Meaning

9 senses
  1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.

    Verstellung, Verlagerung, Vertreibung

    смеще́ниеsmeščénije, перемеще́ниеperemeščénije, сдвигsdvig

    змі́щенняzmíščennja, перемі́щенняperemíščennja

    act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics

  2. The weight of a ship or other floating vessel, traditionally measured or calculated by finding the volume of the vessel below the waterline when afloat, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the whole displacing body.

  3. (dated)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. Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.

  5. A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.

    Parallelverschiebung, Verschiebung, Verschiebeweg

    перемеще́ниеperemeščénije

    переміщенняperemiščennja

  6. 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).

  7. The transfer of feelings or emotions from their intended recipient to another object or person.

  8. The amount of liquid displaced by a submerged object.

  9. The transfer of electricity along tubes of induction and thereby polarizing a dielectric.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Many adults missed out on schooling because of warfare and displacement.

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  2. Displacements should be kept to a strict minimum.

    ruПеремещения должны быть сведены к строгому минимуму.

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  3. While robots have many benefits, they also raise concerns about job displacement and potential ethical issues.

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  4. The workers of the northern countries have paid a high price for the displacement of production in the southern regions.

    deDie Arbeiter der Länder des Nordens haben für die Verlagerung der Produktion in südliche Regionen einen hohen Preis gezahlt.

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  5. The ongoing conflict in Afghanistan has led to widespread displacement, economic hardship, and infrastructural damage.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
the state of being displaced:
physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component:
Русский
By meaning 2
the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship:
the state of being displaced:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship:
the state of being displaced:
physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component:

Origin

From French déplacement. Morphologically displace + -ment.

From French déplacement. Morphologically displace + -ment.

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Forms

plural: displacements
Singulardisplacement
Pluraldisplacements

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • to move something from its natural environment:deracination
  • (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound:displacement reaction
  • act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics:supplanting
  • the act of uniform movement:translation
  • an event in which something is displaced without rotation:shift

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
displacement — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto