displacement
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- n act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
- n an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- n the act of uniform movement
- n (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
- n (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
- n to move something from its natural environment
- n act of removing from office or employment
- Neshat dealt with her sense of displacement by trying to untangle the ideology of Islam through art.
- Besides Caqueta, the area generating the most displacement is Nario state, which borders Ecuador.
- These days, cylinder deactivation, or variable displacement, is relatively common the 2008 Honda Accord V6 has it, for instance.