Displacement is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DISPLACEMENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of displacing
• the removal of someone or something by someone or something else which takes their place
• the enforced departure of people from their homes, typically because of war, persecution, or natural disaster
• the amount by which a thing is moved from a position
• the volume swept by a reciprocating system, as in a pump or engine
• the vector representing such a component.
• the flux density of such an electric field.
• the action of moving something from its place or position
• the occupation by a submerged body or part of a body of a volume which would otherwise be occupied by a fluid.
• the unconscious transfer of an intense emotion from one object to another
• the component of an electric field due to free separated charges, regardless of any polarizing effects.
• The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
• 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.
• 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.
• act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
• an event in which something is displaced without rotation
• the act of uniform movement
• (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
• to move something from its natural environment
• act of removing from office or employment
• the volume or weight of fluid that would fill the volume displaced by a floating ship, used as a measure of the ship's size
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or process of displacing; the state of being displaced

Words related to DISPLACEMENT

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Words that contain DISPLACEMENT

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How to use DISPLACEMENT in a sentence

• The Russians lost the destroyer Novik of 1,260 tons, largest in the navy, and the gunboats Sivutch and Koriets, of 875 tons displacement.
• The process of displacement in particular trades has been responsible for a large amount of actual hardship and suffering among the working-classes.
• It will be observed that F is a vessel of finer form and a little less displacement than E, and, therefore, has less resistance.
• Since October 1993 the nation has suffered from massive ethnic-based violence which has resulted in the death of perhaps 100,000 persons and the displacement of a million others.
• There is no evidence, however, to show that the displacement of Enlil by Merodach had any legendary sanction of like character.
• It is a very simple operation, only requiring the material to be plunged under water and measure the amount of displacement by giving close attention to the overflow.
• We find, therefore, only the results and not the process of this racial displacement.
• But that it was a modification and not a displacement, a victory of civilization and not of race, we beg to suggest.
• Be all this as it may, it is undeniable that there has been in the Highlands, since 1745, a change of civilization without a displacement of race.
• That is why my advice to you now is to say nothing about your imagined displacement of those papers.
• They move or are moved about over the surface of the ground and do not undergo any large vertical displacement.
• A careful examination is made, and we learn that there is decided displacement.
• But this may be mainly supplied by bills of exchange, so as to prevent any great displacement of actual coin.
• The first group, completed between 1895 and 1898, includes six battleships, all of 14,900 tons displacement, 12,000 horsepower and 2,000 tons coal capacity.
• This displacement, which was surface, is usually 70 per cent of the submerged.
• These averaged in tonnage from 7,900 to 15,170 tons displacement.
• These were slightly larger than those described just above, having a displacement of 14,268 tons, with engines of 20,000 horsepower.
• All of these battleships have a displacement of more than 31,000 tons, and have the most complete equipment that it is possible to command.
• The displacement of each pontoon is 180 tons and its weight 22 tons.
• The reason of her sudden displacement now appeared.
• But this view admits the effect upon population which the displacement theory denies.
• The Craven fault, for instance, extends for upwards of 30 miles, and along this line the vertical displacement of the strata has varied from 600 to 3000 feet.

Similar words containing PLACEM without suffix ent and without prefix dis

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