displacement
The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
Other meanings
The weight of a ship or other floating vessel, traditionally measured or calculated by finding the volume of the vessel below the waterline when afloat, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the whole displacing body.
Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
Related words
- absement
- nondisplacement
- microdisplacement
- predisplacement
- postdisplacement
- redisplacement
- retrodisplacement
- displacement activity
- Wien's displacement law
- displacement mapping
- displacement current
- displacement speed
Word history
From French "déplacement".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “displacement” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.