Displacement

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /dɪsˈpleɪsmÉ™nt/, /dɪzˈpleɪsmÉ™nt/

Origin

From French déplacement.

Full definition of displacement

Noun

1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
• unknown date Alexander HamiltonUnnecessary displacement of funds.
• unknown date William Whewell.The displacement of the sun by parallax.
2. 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. (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. (fencing) Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
5. (physics) A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
6. (grammar)