displacement

What does displacement mean?

• noun

  act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics

• noun

  the act of uniform movement

• noun

  to move something from its natural environment

• noun

  an event in which something is displaced without rotation

• noun

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

• noun

  act of removing from office or employment

• noun

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

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