Meanings of vertical displacement in English

Efficiency variation is accomplished by increasing the vertical displacement of the vial.

In frosts of the usual type this vertical displacement is all-important.

The vertical displacement did not exceed four feet, while the horizontal shifting reached a maximum of twenty feet.

They move or are moved about over the surface of the ground and do not undergo any large vertical displacement.

This study attempts to understand the mechanism of the vertical displacement of the forearc during gigantic earthquake cycles via numerical modeling.

Its wings convert vertical displacement into horizontal motion, resulting in a saw-tooth dive pattern, at a speed of about half a knot.

Indeed, it is very questionable whether any earthquake waves are ever produced in the ocean, except when the sea-bottom undergoes a permanent vertical displacement.