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displacement

noun
/dɪsˈpleɪsmɪnt/

Etymology

From French déplacement. Morphologically displace + -ment.

  1. borrowed from déplacement

Definitions

  1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced

    The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.

    • Unnecessary displacement of funds.
    • The displacement of the sun by parallax.

  2. The weight of a ship or other floating vessel, traditionally measured or calculated by…

    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. The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby…

    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. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. Moving the target to avoid an attack

      Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.

    2. A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.

    3. The capability of a communication system to refer to things that are not present (that…

      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).

    4. The transfer of feelings or emotions from their intended recipient to another object or…

      The transfer of feelings or emotions from their intended recipient to another object or person.

    5. The amount of liquid displaced by a submerged object.

    6. The transfer of electricity along tubes of induction and thereby polarizing a dielectric.

    7. Ellipsis of engine displacement.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at displacement. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at displacement. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at displacement

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA