Dictionary Entry
displacement
displacement is a 12-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
12 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 24 · 10 senses
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- 1noun
The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
- 2noun
The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.
- 3noun
The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent.
- 4noun
act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
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- 5noun
act of removing from office or employment
- 6noun
to move something from its natural environment
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- 7noun
the act of uniform movement
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- 8noun
an event in which something is displaced without rotation
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- 9noun
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
- 10noun
(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
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