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DISPLACEMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
Synonyms:
displacement; supplanting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("displacement" is a kind of...):
replacement; replacing (the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Act of removing from office or employment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("displacement" is a kind of...):
rejection (the act of rejecting something)
Sense 3
Meaning:
To move something from its natural environment
Synonyms:
deracination; displacement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("displacement" is a kind of...):
movement (the act of changing the location of something)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The act of uniform movement
Synonyms:
displacement; translation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("displacement" is a kind of...):
motion; move; movement (the act of changing location from one place to another)
Sense 5
Meaning:
An event in which something is displaced without rotation
Synonyms:
displacement; shift
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("displacement" is a kind of...):
translation (a uniform movement without rotation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "displacement"):
amplitude ((physics) the maximum displacement of a periodic wave)
luxation (displacement or misalignment of a joint or organ)
Sense 6
Meaning:
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("displacement" is a kind of...):
defence; defence mechanism; defence reaction; defense; defense mechanism; defense reaction ((psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires)
Domain category:
psychiatry; psychological medicine; psychopathology (the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "displacement"):
transference ((psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst)
Sense 7
Meaning:
(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
Synonyms:
displacement; displacement reaction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("displacement" is a kind of...):
chemical reaction; reaction ((chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Context examples:
In Lentivirus, a central strand displacement event consecutive to central initiation and termination of plus strand synthesis creates a plus strand overlap: the central DNA flap.
(Central DNA Flap Sequence, NCI Thesaurus)
An invasive colorectal adenocarcinoma characterized by the presence of malignant glandular epithelial cells with prominent intracytoplasmic mucin resulting in the displacement of the nuclei.
(Colorectal Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Healthcare workers assess the severity of lymphedema by using a tape measure or by relying on water displacement by the affected limb.
(New portable device to gauge severity of elephantiasis, SciDev.Net)
Congenital displacement of the lens resulting from defective zonule formation.
(Congenital Ectopic Lens, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Despite being less accurate than scientific-grade equipment, the GPS (Global Positioning System) receivers in a smartphone can detect the permanent ground movement (displacement) caused by fault motion in a large earthquake.
(Crowdsourced Smartphone Data Could Give Advance Notice for People in Quake Zones, JPL)
Anterior displacement of the teeth and/or bones of the face.
(Dental Protraction, NCI Thesaurus)
This process involves double-strand breakage of one participant, resection of the break, and strand invasion, followed by formation, displacement and resolution of the Holliday junction.
(Homologous Recombination, NCI Thesaurus)
As long as the criminal remains upon two legs so long must there be some indentation, some abrasion, some trifling displacement which can be detected by the scientific searcher.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A constant of proportionality that exists between electric displacement and electric field intensity in a vacuum.
(Electric Permittivity of Vacuum, NCI Thesaurus)
Lateral displacement of the great toe, producing deformity of the first metatarsophalangeal joint with callous, bursa, or bunion formation over the bony prominence.
(Hallux Valgus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
