displacement Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
    supplanting.
  2. noun an event in which something is displaced without rotation
    shift.
  3. noun the act of uniform movement
    translation.
  4. noun (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
    displacement reaction.
  5. noun (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
  6. noun to move something from its natural environment
    deracination.
  7. noun act of removing from office or employment

WordNet

Dis*place"ment noun
Etymology
Cf. F. déplacement.
Definitions
  1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
    Unnecessary displacement of funds. A. Hamilton.
    The displacement of the sun by parallax. Whewell.
  2. 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.
  3. (Chem.) 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.

Webster 1913