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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISPLACEMENT, n. The act of displacing; the act of removing from the usual or proper place, or from a state, condition or office.
The displacement of the centers of the circles.
Unnecessary displacement of funds.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics [syn: supplanting, displacement]
2: an event in which something is displaced without rotation [syn: shift, displacement]
3: the act of uniform movement [syn: translation, displacement]
4: (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound [syn: displacement, 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 [syn: displacement, deracination]
7: act of removing from office or employment

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1611 1. the act or process of displacing ; the state of being displaced 2. a. the volume or weight of a fluid (as water) displaced by a floating body (as a ship) of equal weight b. the difference between the initial position of something (as a body or geometric figure) and any later position c. the volume displaced by a piston (as in a pump or an engine) in a single stroke; also the total volume so displaced by all the pistons in an internal combustion engine (as in an automobile) 3. a. the redirection of an emotion or impulse from its original object (as an idea or person) to another b. the substitution of another form of behavior for what is usual or expected especially when the usual response is nonadaptive — called also displacement activity, displacement behavior

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a the act or an instance of displacing; the process of being displaced. b an instance of this. 2 Physics the amount of a fluid displaced by a solid floating or immersed in it (a ship with a displacement of 11,000 tons). 3 Psychol. a the substitution of one idea or impulse for another. b the unconscious transfer of strong unacceptable emotions from one object to another. 4 the amount by which a thing is shifted from its place.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fault Fault, n. 1. (Elec.) A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit. 2. (Geol. & Mining) A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping. Note: The surface along which the dislocated masses have moved is called the fault plane. When this plane is vertical, the fault is a vertical fault; when its inclination is such that the present relative position of the two masses could have been produced by the sliding down, along the fault plane, of the mass on its upper side, the fault is a normal, or gravity, fault. When the fault plane is so inclined that the mass on its upper side has moved up relatively, the fault is then called a reverse (or reversed), thrust, or overthrust, fault. If no vertical displacement has resulted, the fault is then called a horizontal fault. The linear extent of the dislocation measured on the fault plane and in the direction of movement is the displacement; the vertical displacement is the throw; the horizontal displacement is the heave. The direction of the line of intersection of the fault plane with a horizontal plane is the trend of the fault. A fault is a strike fault when its trend coincides approximately with the strike of associated strata (i.e., the line of intersection of the plane of the strata with a horizontal plane); it is a dip fault when its trend is at right angles to the strike; an oblique fault when its trend is oblique to the strike. Oblique faults and dip faults are sometimes called cross faults. A series of closely associated parallel faults are sometimes called step faults and sometimes distributive faults.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Displacement Dis*place"ment, n. [Cf. F. d['e]placement.] 1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place. Unnecessary displacement of funds. --A. Hamilton. The displacement of the sun by parallax. --Whewell. 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. (Chem.) 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. Piston displacement (Mech.), the volume of the space swept through, or weight of steam, water, etc., displaced, in a given time, by the piston of a steam engine or pump.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Displacement is the removal of something from its usual place or position by something which then occupies that place or position. (FORMAL) ...the displacement of all my energy into caring for the baby. 2. Displacement is the forcing of people away from the area or country where they live.

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