displacement
Meaning of displacement
noun
- The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
- The quantity of a liquid displaced by a floating body, as water by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.
- 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.
- Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
- A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
- (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).
Information about displacement
- It is a name.
- The plural form of displacement is: displacements.
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Hyphenation of displacement
dis-place-ment
- It consists of 3 syllables and 12 chars.
- displacement is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
displacement synonyms
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Meaning deracination:
Words that rhyme with displacement
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