displacement

/dis'pleismənt/

Thân thiện

The scientist measures the displacement of water in a graduated cylinder.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • The act of moving something from its usual or proper place: The physical act of causing something to change its position or location.
   • The condition of being displaced: The state resulting from being forced to leave one's home, country, or usual environment.
   • The volume or weight of a fluid displaced by a floating or submerged object: A principle in physics and naval architecture, often referring to the weight of water a ship pushes aside.
   • (Psychology) A defense mechanism: The unconscious transfer of an intense emotion from its original object to a safer or more acceptable substitute.
   • (Chemistry) A type of reaction: A chemical reaction where an element is removed from a compound and replaced by another element.

Examples of Usage

• General Usage:
  • The earthquake caused the displacement of several large boulders. (The earthquake moved the boulders from their original positions.)
  • The war led to the displacement of thousands of civilians. (The war forced thousands of civilians to leave their homes.)
• Technical/Scientific Usage:
  • The ship's displacement is 50,000 tons. (The ship weighs as much as 50,000 tons of water it displaces.)
  • In therapy, he discussed his displacement of anger from his boss onto his family. (He talked about redirecting his anger from his boss to his family.)
  • The reaction is a single displacement, where zinc displaces copper in the solution. (Zinc replaces copper in the chemical compound.)

Advanced Usage

• "Center of displacement": In naval architecture, the center of gravity of the volume of displaced water.
• "Angular displacement": In physics, the angle through which a point or line has been rotated in a specified sense about a specified axis.
• "Displacement activity": In psychology/ethology, an irrelevant activity performed in a situation of conflict or stress (e.g., scratching one's head when anxious).

Variants and Related Words

• Displace (verb): To move or force from the usual place or position; to take the place of.
  • The new manager will displace the current one.
• Displaced person (noun phrase): A person who is forced to leave their home country, often a refugee.
• Displacement tonnage (noun phrase): The weight of water displaced by a ship, a measure of the ship's size.

Synonyms

• Relocation: The action of moving to a new place.
• Supplanting: The act of taking the place of another, often by force or strategy.
• Transferal: The process of moving something or someone from one place to another.

Related Phrases

• "Displacement hull": A type of boat hull that moves through the water by pushing it aside, rather than planing on top of it.
• "Displacement current": (Physics) A quantity appearing in Maxwell's equations that is defined in terms of the rate of change of electric displacement field.

Related Idioms

• "A drop in the ocean": While not a direct idiom for displacement, this phrase can relate to the concept of something being insignificant compared to the volume displaced, highlighting a small part of a much larger whole.

Học thuật

Noun

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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• deracination
• displacement reaction
• translation
• shift
• supplanting