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DISPLACEMENTS

• DISPLACEMENT, the act of displacing [n]
• The moving of something from its place or position
• The removal of someone or something by someone or something else that takes their place
• The enforced departure of people from their homes, typically because of war, persecution, or natural disaster
• The component of an electric field due to free separated charges, regardless of any polarizing effects
• The amount by which a thing is moved from its normal position
• The occupation by a submerged body or part of a body of a volume that would otherwise be occupied by a fluid
• The amount or weight of fluid that would fill such a volume in the case of a floating ship, used as a measure of the ship's size
• The volume swept by a reciprocating system, as in a pump or engine
• The unconscious transfer of an intense emotion from its original object to another one
• The vector representing such a component
• The flux density of such an electric field
• DISPLACEMENT [n]

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