displacement
英[dɪs'pleɪsm(ə)nt]
美[dɪs'plesmənt]
- n. 取代，位移；[船] 排水量
英英释意
- 1. an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- 2. act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
- 3. the act of uniform movement
- 4. (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
- 5. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
- 6. to move something from its natural environment
- 7. act of removing from office or employment