DISPLACEMENT
\dɪsplˈe͡ɪsmənt], \dɪsplˈeɪsmənt], \d_ɪ_s_p_l_ˈeɪ_s_m_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of DISPLACEMENT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms (6th edition)
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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to move something from its natural environment
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act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
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act of removing from office or employment
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the act of uniform movement
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an event in which something is displaced without rotation
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(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
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(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
By Princeton University
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to move something from its natural environment
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(chemistry) a chemical reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
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act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
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act of removing from office or employment
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the act of uniform movement
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an event in which something is displaced without rotation
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(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
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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.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
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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.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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The process by which an emotional or behavioral response that is appropriate for one situation appears in another situation for which it is inappropriate.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The quantity of water displaced by a ship afloat, and whose weight equals that of the displacing body.
By Daniel Lyons
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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[Old French] An abnormal position of any part of a plant due to its shifting from its normal place of insertion.
By J.H. Kenneth
By Alexander Duane
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Displacing, being displaced; amount by which thing is shifted from its place; ousting, replacement by something else; amount of fluid displaced by solid floating or immersed in it.
By Sir Augustus Henry
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