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displacement   (TTS Sound)

The noun displacement has 7 senses

• supplanting, displacement -- (act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics)


• shift, displacement -- (an event in which something is displaced without rotation)


• translation, displacement -- (the act of uniform movement)


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


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


• displacement, deracination -- (to move something from its natural environment)


• displacement -- (act of removing from office or employment)