Synonym: deracination, displacement reaction, shift, supplanting, translation. Similar words: placement, replacement, displace, misplace, effacement, disparagement, display, on display. Meaning: [-mənt] 
n. 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.
n. 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. 
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1 No muss, no fuss, just good old displacement.
2 An appropriate inversion becomes a deconstructive displacement.
3 This will result in a downward displacement of the marginal cost curve from to.
4 The displacement of large numbers of rural dwellers to urban areas has increased overcrowding in urban schools.
5 Racism is interpreted as a form of displacement and objectification deriving from unhealthy neuroses and personality traits.
6 We believe the gas-coal displacement option also opens a great variety of possibilities.
7 A sense of displacement forced her to respond to the pressure of his hand on her back guiding her.
8 In late Visean, a displacement of the basin towards the north took place.
9 This causes the beam to bend and the displacement is measured by means of a strain gauge or a differential transformer.
10 Disease, displacement and alien acrimony caused these people to all but disappear from Tierra del Fuego.
11 The layering is disrupted by small scale displacement along fault planes.
12 The rotary pumps have a maximum displacement of up to 80m 3 h -1.
13 In those circumstances, the displacement system provides its own self-fulfilling momentum.
14 The displacement of oil in the industrial oil boiler sector would then be complete.
15 This displacement allows a strong interaction with the N terminus of the repressor B helix.
16 The technology to implement the displacement of oil by burning coal with gas does riot compare in complexity with these wartime developments.
17 The recent famine in these parts has caused the displacement of tens of thousands of people.
18 When I was studying for my exams I used to clean the house as a sort of displacement activity.
19 What is relevant to the worker elites, however,(www.Sentencedict.com) is the fundamental change in the incidence of displacement.
20 The pulse.shaped output from the detectors have a slight phase displacement, the sign of which depends on the direction of rotation.
21 There must now be an independent review of the approach to migration and displacement.
22 One development of the optical encoder employs two photosensitive devices with a small relative displacement.
23 As with tensile and bend testing, torsion testing may be done under various stress or displacement programs.
24 The scene in the studio resembled a stage set for the problem of cultural displacement that I have just described.
25 We shall see later that in simple shear a rigid body rotation is involved as well as a displacement.
26 An important debate surrounding the concept of enterprise zones has been the question of displacement.
27 In the primary processes of the unconscious system, psychical energy flows freely by means of displacement and condensation.
28 Like this woman's brother, there were many who found the displacement and emotional pain overpowering.
29 Deconstruction is not just a reversal of strategies or a neutralisation of binary opposites: it is a process of displacement.
30 The deserted house and courtyard made a great impression on me because they were my first experience of real disorder and displacement.
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