displacement

• to move something from its natural environment
• The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced
• act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
• an event in which something is displaced without rotation
• the act of uniform movement
• (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
• act of removing from office or employment
• 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
• 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

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