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Meanings of displacement in English

Russian
перемещение
Portuguese
deslocamento
Spanish
vector de desplazamiento
Catalan
desplaçament
Wikidata

Vector that is the shortest distance from the initial to the final position of a point P.

перемещение
Portuguese
deslocamento
Spanish
desplazamiento

An event in which something is displaced without rotation.

deslocamento
Catalan
suplantació

Act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics.

suplantació
Portuguese
deslocamento
Catalan
desplaçament
Spanish
desplazamiento

The act of uniform movement.

deslocamento
Usage of displacement in English
1
Great movements of water like this can also cause displacement of animals.
BBC
2
So the idea of indicative votes is, at best, a displacement activity.
The Guardian
3
Preoperative displacement results in a higher risk at a postoperatively displaced patella.
Pubmed
4
The college city of Chico felt the effects of that displacement immediately.
Reuters
5
Everything else in the past five years has been a displacement activity.
The Guardian
6
Wiping out a farmer's livelihood increases poverty and can lead to displacement.
The Guardian
7
Some is a displacement activity, a byproduct of what happened in Greece.
The Guardian
8
The total length of the strata has been increased by the displacement.
The Elements of Geology
9
Election observers worry that people streaming into displacement camps could exacerbate vote-rigging.
Reuters
10
The reconstruction spatial resolution was demonstrated by reconstructing a localized displacement abnormality.
Pubmed
11
Implanted strain gauges were used to track knee ligament displacement throughout simulation.
Pubmed
12
There was no evident displacement of the head of the humerus forwards.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 / Being Mainly a...
13
This will reduce the displacement of the sigmoid flexure, besides giving relief.
The Royal Road to Health; Or, the Secret of Health Without Drugs
14
The various mammals bring before us the successive stages of this displacement.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
15
The thermodynamic data also showed that this displacement equilibrium was enthalpically controlled.
Pubmed
16
Synergistic combinations could be predicted from binding studies and competitive displacement assays.
Pubmed
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Translations for displacement
Displacement through the time
Displacement across language varieties
United States of America
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Ireland
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United Kingdom
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