displace

1 take the place of

2 force to move; "the refugees were displaced by the war" [syn: force out]

3 move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people" [syn: uproot, deracinate]

4 cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" [syn: move]

5 remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space" [syn: dislodge, bump]

6 put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; "The colonists displaced the natives" [syn: dislocate]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪs

Verb

1. to move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland
2. to supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute
3. In the context of "of a floating ship": to have a weight equal to that of the water displaced

Translations

• Finnish: syrjäyttää (2)

Derived terms

• displacement

Displacement may refer to:

Physical sciences

Physics

• Displacement (vector), in Newtonian mechanics, specifies the position of a point in reference to an origin or to a previous position
  • Particle displacement, a measurement of distance of the movement of a particle in a medium as it transmits a wave
  • Displacement field (mechanics), an assignment of displacement vectors for all points in a body that is displaced from one state to another
    • Electric displacement field, as appears in Maxwell's equations

Engineering

• Engine displacement, the total volume of air/fuel mixture an engine can draw in during one complete engine cycle
• Displacement (fluid), an object immersed in a fluid pushes it out of the way
• Displacement has several meanings related to ships and boats
  • Displacement hull, where the moving hull's weight is supported by buoyancy alone and it must displace water from its path rather than planing on the water's surface
  • Displacement speed, a rule of thumb for non planing watercraft to estimate their theoretical maximum speed
  • Displacement (ship), several related measurements of a ship's weight
• Displacement mapping, a technique in 3D computer graphics

Chemistry

• Single displacement reaction, a chemical reaction concerning the exchange of ions
• Double displacement reaction, a chemical reaction concerning the exchange of ions

Geology

• Earth Crustal Displacement, also known as "Pole shift"

Medicine

• Displacement (orthopedic surgery), change in alignment of the fracture fragments

Social sciences

• Forced migration, by persecution or violence
• Displacement (psychology), a sub-conscious defense mechanism
• Displacement (psiology, parapsychology, psychical science), a statistical or qualitative correspondence between targets and responses

Sport

• Displacement (fencing), a movement that avoids or dodges an attack

See also

• Offset (disambiguation)
• Transformation (geometry)

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