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displacement
has definitions from the fields of work,psychoanalysis,psychiatry,chemistry
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[ noun ] act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
Synonyms Used in print (Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)Success may mean merely the displacement of Western influence . (Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)The displacement ( at_least to a considerable extent ) of the ethical jurisprudence of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by positivism reshaped both international_law theory and doctrine . Related terms |
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[ noun ] an event in which something is displaced without rotation
Synonyms Used in print (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)The actual mean of 1.07 being about halfway between 0 of complete correlation and 2.0 of no correlation , it is evident that there is a pretty fair degree of similarity in the behavior even of particular individual items of meaning as regards long-term stem displacement . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the act of uniform movement
Synonyms Used in print (Ross E. McKinney and Howard Edde, "Aerated...)The average sludge age based on displacement of solids was calculated to be 14.5 days . |
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[ noun ] to move something from its natural environment
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[ noun ] (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
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[ noun ] (chemistry) a chemical reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
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[ noun ] (work) act of removing from office or employment
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