displacement

English

Etymology

From French déplacement. Morphologically displace +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpleɪsmɪnt/, /dɪzˈpleɪsmənt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪsmənt

Noun

displacement (plural displacements)

1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
   • 1793, Alexander Hamilton, Loans […] :

     Unnecessary displacement of funds.

   • 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences:

     The displacement of the sun by parallax.

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. (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) 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. (psychology) The transfer of feelings or emotions from their intended recipient to another object or person.
8. (fluid mechanics) The amount of liquid displaced by a submerged object.
9. (electricity) The transfer of electricity along tubes of induction and thereby polarizing a dielectric.

Derived terms

• microdisplacement
• postdisplacement
• predisplacement
• redisplacement
• retrodisplacement

 

Compound words and expressions

• displacement activity
• displacement current
• displacement speed
• displacement ton
• engine displacement
• positive displacement pump
• there is no replacement for displacement
• Wien's displacement law

 

Translations

the state of being displaced

• Arabic: إِزَاحَة m (ʔizāḥa), نُزُوح (nuzūḥ)
• Bulgarian: изместване n (izmestvane), отместване n (otmestvane)
• Catalan: desplaçament (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 位移 (zh) (wèiyí)

• Galician: desprazamento (gl) m
• German: Verstellung f, Verlagerung f, Vertreibung (de) f, Verschiebung (de) f, Verdrängung (de) f, Versatz (de) f, Ersatz (de) m, Auslenkung f, Absetzung (de) f, Ersetzung (de) f, Verrückung f, Verformung (de) f, Dislokation f, Malposition f, Deplatzierung f, Displacement n, Versatz (de) m, Ausbootung f, Abdrängung f, Adressabstand m, relative Adresse f, Verlegung (de) f
• Greek: μετατόπιση (el) f (metatópisi)
• Hungarian: elmozdítás (hu), kimozdítás, kiszorítás (hu), kitelepítés (hu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دەربەدەرکراو (derbederkraw)

• Latvian: pārvietošanās f
• Maori: rūanga, peinga
• Portuguese: deslocamento (pt) m
• Romanian: deplasament (ro), dezlocuire, dislocare (ro)
• Russian: смеще́ние (ru) n (smeščénije), перемеще́ние (ru) n (peremeščénije), сдвиг (ru) m (sdvig)
• Spanish: desplazamiento (es) m
• Ukrainian: змі́щення n (zmíščennja), перемі́щення n (peremíščennja)

the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship

• Bulgarian: водоизместимост f (vodoizmestimost)
• Catalan: desplaçament (ca) m
• Danish: deplacement n
• Finnish: uppoama (fi), uppouma (fi)
• German: Verdrängung (de) f, Deplacement n, Wasserverdrängung f
• Hungarian: vízkiszorítás (hu)
• Norwegian: deplasement n

  Bokmål: deplasement n

  Nynorsk: deplasement n

• Russian: водоизмеще́ние (ru) n (vodoizmeščénije)
• Swedish: deplacement (sv) n

physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component

• Amharic: ምዕራፍ (məʿraf)
• Arabic: إِزَاحَة m (ʔizāḥa)
• Assamese: সৰণ (xoron)
• Basque: desplazamendu
• Belarusian: перамяшчэнне n (pjeramjaščennje)
• Bengali: সরণ (bn) (śoron)
• Bulgarian: преместване (bg) n (premestvane)
• Catalan: desplaçament (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 位移 (wai⁶ ji⁴)

  Mandarin: 位移 (zh) (wèiyí)

• Chuvash: куҫнăлăх (kuśnălăh)
• Estonian: ihe (et)
• French: déplacement (fr) m
• German: Parallelverschiebung f, Verschiebung (de) f, Verschiebeweg m, Verschiebungsvektor m, Abstand (de) m, Abstandsvektor m, Distanz (de) f
• Greek: μετατόπιση (el) f (metatópisi)
• Haitian Creole: deplasman
• Hebrew: העתק (he) m (he'etek)
• Hindi: विस्थापन (hi) m (visthāpan)
• Hungarian: elmozdulás (hu), eltolódás (hu), eltolás (hu)
• Icelandic: tilfærsla f
• Indonesian: perpindahan (id)
• Italian: spostamento (it) m
• Japanese: 変位 (ja) (hen'i)
• Kazakh: ауыстыру (auystyru)
• Korean: 변위 (ko) (byeonwi)
• Latvian: pārvietojums m
• Malagasy: hotikotiky (mg)
• Malay: sesaran (ms)
• Malayalam: സ്ഥാനാന്തരം (sthānāntaraṁ)
• Manx: scughey uillinagh m
• Maori: hūnukutanga
• Marathi: विस्थापन m (visthāpan)
• Polish: przemieszczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: deslocamento (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਵਿੱਥ (vittha)
• Russian: перемеще́ние (ru) n (peremeščénije)
• Shona: nhambwe yasudurukwa
• Spanish: desplazamiento (es) m
• Tagalog: galaw
• Tamil: இடப்பெயர்ச்சி (ta) (iṭappeyarcci)
• Telugu: స్థానభ్రంశము (sthānabhraṁśamu)
• Thai: การกระจัด (th) (gaan-grà-jàt)
• Turkish: yer değiştirme (tr)
• Turkmen: orun üýtgetme
• Ukrainian: переміщення (peremiščennja)
• Vietnamese: li độ
• Welsh: dadleoliad m

Further reading

• displacement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Psychology Today: Displacement

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “displacement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)