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Displacement   /dɪsplˈeɪsmənt/   Listen
Displacement

noun
1.
Act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics.  Synonym: supplanting.
2.
An event in which something is displaced without rotation.  Synonym: shift.
3.
The act of uniform movement.  Synonym: translation.
4.
(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound.  Synonym: displacement reaction.
5.
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one.
6.
To move something from its natural environment.  Synonym: deracination.
7.
Act of removing from office or employment.



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"Displacement" Quotes from Famous Books



... length of the Eber is about 245 ft.; its breadth, 26 ft.; its depth, 14 ft.; and it has a displacement of about 500 tons. The armament will consist of three long 5 in. guns in center pivot carriages, and a small number of revolvers. One of the former will be placed at the stern on the quarter deck, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 • Various

... little, moves as much backward, leans to the right, leans to the left, in wild disorder, incapable of keeping his balance or making progress. And this happens with sudden jerks and jolts, with a vigor no whit inferior to that of the animal in perfect health. It is a displacement of all the works, a storm that uproots the mutual ...
— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre

... Ideas of the Purpose of Poetry 1. Allegory and Example in Rhetoric 2. Allegory and the Rhetorical Example in Poetic 3. The Displacement of Allegory by Example ...
— Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance - A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism • Donald Lemen Clark

... of these things, it circumvents its own master and steals its needs with cunning. So is it precisely with the mind. When the mind craves a certain expression of itself, needs a certain relief, and is denied its craving, then it, too, circumvents its own master, and, by the crafty displacement of ideas, hoodwinking the very power that governs it, ...
— Sally Bishop - A Romance • E. Temple Thurston

... are divided anatomically into those characterized, first, by excess formation, second, by deficient formation, third, by abnormal displacement of parts. They are due to intrinsic causes which are in the germ, and which may be due to some unusual conditions in either the male or female germ cell or an imperfect commingling of the germinal material, and to extrinsic causes which physically, as in ...
— Disease and Its Causes • William Thomas Councilman


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