| Noun | 1. | displacement - an event in which something is displaced without rotationamplitude - (physics) the maximum displacement of a periodic wave luxation - displacement or misalignment of a joint or organ | |
| 2. | displacement - act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tacticsreplacing, replacement - the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; "replacing the star will not be easy" | |
| 3. | displacement - the act of uniform movementmovement, move, motion - the act of changing location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path" | |
| 4. | displacement - (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compoundchemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions chemical reaction, reaction - (chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others; "there was a chemical reaction of the lime with the ground water" | |
| 5. | displacement - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable onetransference - (psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst | |
| 6. | displacement - to move something from its natural environmentmovement - the act of changing the location of something; "the movement of cargo onto the vessel" | |
| 7. | displacement - act of removing from office or employmentrejection - the act of rejecting something; "his proposals were met with rejection" | |