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Word: displacement (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


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Noun:

  • chemistry 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.
  • fencing Moving the target to dodging.
  • physics A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
  • 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.

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