displacement
English Thesaurus
1. act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics (noun.act)
| hypernym | : | replacement, replacing, |
| definition | : | the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another (noun.act) |
2. act of removing from office or employment (noun.act)
| hypernym | : | rejection, |
| definition | : | the act of rejecting something (noun.act) |
3. to move something from its natural environment (noun.act)
| hypernym | : | movement, |
| definition | : | the act of changing the location of something (noun.act) |
4. the act of uniform movement (noun.act)
| hypernym | : | motion, move, movement, |
| definition | : | the act of changing location from one place to another (noun.act) |
5. an event in which something is displaced without rotation (noun.event)
| hypernym | : | translation, |
| definition | : | a uniform movement without rotation (noun.event) |
| hyponym | : | amplitude, |
| definition | : | (physics) the maximum displacement of a periodic wave (noun.event) |
| hyponym | : | luxation, |
| definition | : | displacement or misalignment of a joint or organ (noun.event) |
6. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one (noun.process)
| hyponym | : | transference, |
| definition | : | (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 (noun.cognition) |
7. (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound (noun.process)
| hypernym | : | chemical reaction, reaction, |
| definition | : | (chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others (noun.process) |
| domain category | : | chemical science, chemistry, |
| definition | : | the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions (noun.cognition) |
8. act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics (noun.act)
9. to move something from its natural environment (noun.act)
| derivation | : | deracinate, uproot, |
| definition | : | move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment (verb.social) |
10. the act of uniform movement (noun.act)
| derivation | : | translate, |
| definition | : | subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body (verb.motion) |
11. an event in which something is displaced without rotation (noun.event)
| derivation | : | shift, |
| definition | : | move and exchange for another (verb.change) |
| derivation | : | change, shift, switch, |
| definition | : | lay aside, abandon, or leave for another (verb.change) |
12. act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics (noun.act)
13. to move something from its natural environment (noun.act)
| derivation | : | deracinate, uproot, |
| definition | : | move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment (verb.social) |
14. the act of uniform movement (noun.act)
| derivation | : | translate, |
| definition | : | subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body (verb.motion) |
15. an event in which something is displaced without rotation (noun.event)
| derivation | : | shift, |
| definition | : | move and exchange for another (verb.change) |
| derivation | : | change, shift, switch, |
| definition | : | lay aside, abandon, or leave for another (verb.change) |
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