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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
displacement/dɪsˈpleɪsmənt/
▶noun
  • 1 the action or process of displacing.
  • 2 the amount by which a thing is moved from a position.
  • 3 the volume or weight of water that would fill the volume displaced by a floating ship, used as a measure of the ship's size.
  • 4 the volume swept by a reciprocating system, as in a pump or engine.
  • 5 Physics the component of an electric field due to free separated charges, regardless of any polarizing effects.
  • 6 Psychoanalysis the unconscious transfer of an intense emotion from one object to another.



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