Look up: displacement

1. Displacement
   Displacement is the size of a ship as measured by the actual weight of water which it displaces when afloat. When a ship is launched, part of the ship's hull is in the water, partly submerged. This part of the ship dislodges or displaces a quantity of water, the weight of which water is used as a re...
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2. Displacement
   Responses on a psi test that correspond systematically to targets other than the intended one (e.g., those before or after).
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3. Displacement
   In dispersal unit transport, the process by which the unit is actually moved from the point of formation to the point of landing; the middle process of the dispersal act consisting of takeoff, flight and landing, or liberation, displacement and deposition.
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4. Displacement
   Responses on a psi test that correspond systematically to targets other than the intended one (e.g., those before or after).
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5. Displacement
   of a tooth refers to its movement within the confines of the tooth socket. A tooth can be displaced more easily when forced in a lateral direction than when forced into the socket. Continual or frequent displacement of a tooth may lead to it repositioning itself in the socket.
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6. Displacement
   The transferring of ideas or emotions from their true source to another object.
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7. displacement
   [n] - (chemistry) a chemical reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound 2. [n] - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one 3. [n] - to move someth...
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8. Displacement
   Weight of water a craft displaces when afloat.
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9. displacement
   1. the weight of a fluid (such as water) displaced by a freely floating or submerged body (such as an offshore drilling rig). if the body floats, the displacement equals the weigh of the body. 2. replacement of one fluid by another in the pore space of a reservoir. For example, oil may be displaced by water.
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10. Displacement
    Displacement is a vector quantity that specifies the change of position of a body or particle and is usually measured from the mean position or position of rest. In general, it can be represented as a rotating vector or a translation vector, or both. Displacements can either be absolute (i.e. relati...
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11. Displacement
    sailing through the water
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12. displacement
    displacement reaction; replacement reaction; replacement. A reaction in which a fragment of one reactant is replaced by another reactant (or by a fragent of another reactant). Displacement reactions have the same number of products as reactants, and are described by equations of the form A + BC AB ...
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13. displacement
    Displacement is distance moved in a particular direction. Its unit is m.
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14. Displacement
    turning or ducking to remove the target area from its normal position, resulting in the non-valid target being substituted for the valid target
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15. Displacement
    moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging
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16. Displacement
    The measured distance traveled by a point from its position at rest. Peak to peak displacement is the total measured movement of a vibrating point between its positive and negative extremes. Measurement units expressed as inches or millinches.
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17. displacement
    the departure of aerial photographic images from the positions they would occupy if there were no relief or tilt Category: The cosmos • The quantity of water displaced by a vessel floating in equilibrium in calm water.In accordance with Archimedes Principle,the mass of the water displace...
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18. Displacement
    Dis·place'ment noun [ Confer French déplacement .] 1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place. « Unnecessary displacement of funds.» A. Hamilton. « The displac...
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19. displacement
    1. 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. ... 2. <psychology> The process by which an emotiona...
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20. displacement
    noun (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
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21. displacement
    noun (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
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22. displacement
    (dis-plās´mәnt) malposition. percolation. a defense mechanism in which emotions, ideas, wishes, or impulses are unconsciously shifted from their original object to a more acceptable, usually less threatening, substitute. in a chemical reaction, the replacement of one ...
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23. Displacement
    • (n.) 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. • (n.) The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place. • (n.) The process of extracting...
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24. displacement
    (from the article `ship`) ...machinery), and outfit (fixed items having to do with crew life support). These categories of weight are known collectively as lightship weight. ...
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25. displacement
    (from the article `Freud, Sigmund`) ...which Freud called overdetermination. No direct correspondence between a simple manifest content and its multidimensional latent counterpart can ... ...to disguise it. Condensation refers to the combining of elements; by itself, a knife may suggest a hostile weapon, but dreamed of in combination .....
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