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What (who) is displacement - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Displace; Displacements; Displacement (disambiguation)
displacement
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.
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2.
Displacement is the forcing of people away from the area or country where they live.
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displacement
¦ 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.
Displacement
·noun The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
II. Displacement ·noun 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.
III. Displacement ·noun 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.
Examples of use of displacement
1. The storm‘s survivors face months of displacement.
2. Displacement of civilians The UNAMI report also found that the displacement of civilian population "has also continued to grow" and now affects all governorates in the country.
3. But the family is visibly weary from shock and displacement.
4. Fighting in southern Sudan resulted in even greater displacement.
5. The displacement changes the stress values everywhere in the region.