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displacement

noun · 17 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • /dɪsˈpleɪsmɪnt/
  • /dɪzˈpleɪsmənt/
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  • rhymes with -eɪsmənt
  • CMU ARPABET: D IH0 S P L EY1 S M AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: dated

Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: fencing, government, hobbies, lifestyle, martial-arts, military, politics, sports, war

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Synonyms: none provided

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5

noun

Meaning 5

A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

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Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

The capability of a communication system to refer to things that are not present (that existed or will exist at another time, or that exist at another location).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

The transfer of feelings or emotions from their intended recipient to another object or person.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

The amount of liquid displaced by a submerged object.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: fluid mechanics

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

The transfer of electricity along tubes of induction and thereby polarizing a dielectric.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

Ellipsis of engine displacement.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Topics: automotive, transport, vehicles

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: supplanting

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: replacement, replacing

12

noun

Meaning 12

act of removing from office or employment

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: rejection

13

noun

Meaning 13

to move something from its natural environment

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: deracination

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: movement

14

noun

Meaning 14

the act of uniform movement

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: translation

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: motion, movement, move

15

noun

Meaning 15

an event in which something is displaced without rotation

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: shift

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: translation

Narrower terms: amplitude, luxation

16

noun

Meaning 16

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence

Narrower terms: transference

17

noun

Meaning 17

(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: displacement reaction

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: chemical reaction, reaction

History

Etymology

From French déplacement. Morphologically displace + -ment.

Across languages

Translations

123 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: zhvendosje — the state of being displaced
  • Arabic: إِزَاحَة (ʔizāḥa) — the state of being displaced
  • Arabic: نُزُوح (nuzūḥ) — the state of being displaced
  • Bulgarian: изместване (izmestvane) — the state of being displaced
  • Bulgarian: отместване (otmestvane) — the state of being displaced
  • Catalan: desplaçament — the state of being displaced
  • Chinese Mandarin: 位移 (wèiyí) — the state of being displaced
  • Esperanto: delokeco — the state of being displaced
  • Galician: desprazamento — the state of being displaced
  • German: Verstellung — the state of being displaced
  • German: Verlagerung — the state of being displaced
  • German: Vertreibung — the state of being displaced
  • German: Verschiebung — the state of being displaced
  • German: Verdrängung — the state of being displaced
  • German: Versatz — the state of being displaced
  • German: Ersatz — the state of being displaced
  • German: Auslenkung — the state of being displaced
  • German: Absetzung — the state of being displaced
  • German: Ersetzung — the state of being displaced
  • German: Verrückung — the state of being displaced
  • German: Verformung — the state of being displaced
  • German: Dislokation — the state of being displaced
  • German: Malposition — the state of being displaced
  • German: Deplatzierung — the state of being displaced
  • German: Displacement — the state of being displaced
  • German: Versatz — the state of being displaced
  • German: Ausbootung — the state of being displaced
  • German: Abdrängung — the state of being displaced
  • German: Adressabstand — the state of being displaced
  • German: Verlegung — the state of being displaced
  • Greek: μετατόπιση (metatópisi) — the state of being displaced
  • Hungarian: elmozdítás — the state of being displaced
  • Hungarian: kimozdítás — the state of being displaced
  • Hungarian: kiszorítás — the state of being displaced
  • Hungarian: kitelepítés — the state of being displaced
  • Central Kurdish: دەربەدەرکراو (derbederkraw) — the state of being displaced
  • Latvian: pārvietošanās — the state of being displaced
  • Māori: rūanga — the state of being displaced
  • Māori: peinga — the state of being displaced
  • Portuguese: deslocamento — the state of being displaced
  • Romanian: deplasament — the state of being displaced
  • Romanian: dezlocuire — the state of being displaced
  • Romanian: dislocare — the state of being displaced
  • Russian: смеще́ние (smeščénije) — the state of being displaced
  • Russian: перемеще́ние (peremeščénije) — the state of being displaced
  • Russian: сдвиг (sdvig) — the state of being displaced
  • Spanish: desplazamiento — the state of being displaced
  • Ukrainian: змі́щення (zmíščennja) — the state of being displaced
  • Ukrainian: перемі́щення (peremíščennja) — the state of being displaced
  • Albanian: zhvendosje — the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship
  • Bulgarian: водоизместимост (vodoizmestimost) — the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship
  • Catalan: desplaçament — the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship
  • Danish: deplacement — the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship
  • Finnish: uppoama — the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship
  • Finnish: uppouma — the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship
  • German: Verdrängung — the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship
  • German: Deplacement — the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship
  • German: Wasserverdrängung — the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship
  • Hungarian: vízkiszorítás — the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship
  • Norwegian: deplasement — the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship
  • Norwegian Bokmål: deplasement — the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: deplasement — the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship
  • Russian: водоизмеще́ние (vodoizmeščénije) — the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship
  • Swedish: deplacement — the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship
  • Albanian: zhvendosje — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Amharic: ምዕራፍ (məʿraf) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Arabic: إِزَاحَة (ʔizāḥa) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Assamese: সৰণ (xoron) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Basque: desplazamendu — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Belarusian: перамяшчэнне (pjeramjaščennje) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Bengali: সরণ (śoron) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Bulgarian: преместване (premestvane) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Catalan: desplaçament — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Chinese Cantonese: 位移 (wai6 ji4) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Chinese Mandarin: 位移 (wèiyí) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Chuvash: куҫнӑлӑх (kuśnălăh) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Estonian: ihe — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • French: déplacement — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • German: Parallelverschiebung — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • German: Verschiebung — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • German: Verschiebeweg — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • German: Verschiebungsvektor — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • German: Abstand — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • German: Abstandsvektor — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • German: Distanz — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Greek: μετατόπιση (metatópisi) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Haitian Creole: deplasman — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Hebrew: העתק (he'eték) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Hindi: विस्थापन (visthāpan) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Hungarian: elmozdulás — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Hungarian: eltolódás — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Hungarian: eltolás — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Icelandic: tilfærsla — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Indonesian: perpindahan — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Italian: spostamento — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Japanese: 変位 (hen'i) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Kazakh: ауыстыру (auystyru) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Korean: 변위 (byeonwi) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Latvian: pārvietojums — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Malagasy: hotikotiky — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Malay: sesaran — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Malayalam: സ്ഥാനാന്തരം (sthānāntaraṁ) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Manx: scughey uillinagh — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Māori: hūnukutanga — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Marathi: विस्थापन (visthāpan) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Polish: przemieszczenie — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Portuguese: deslocamento — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Punjabi: ਵਿੱਥ (vittha) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Russian: перемеще́ние (peremeščénije) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Shona: nhambwe yasudurukwa — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Spanish: desplazamiento — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Tagalog: galaw — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Tamil: இடப்பெயர்ச்சி (iṭappeyarcci) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Telugu: స్థానభ్రంశము (sthānabhraṁśamu) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Thai: การกระจัด (gaan-grà-jàt) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Turkish: yer değiştirme — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Turkmen: orun üýtgetme — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Ukrainian: переміщення (peremiščennja) — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Vietnamese: li độ — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Vietnamese: độ dời — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Welsh: dadleoliad — physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component
  • Spanish: cilindrada — engine size
  • Spanish: cubicaje — engine size
Real reading context

displacement in complete knowledge articles