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

Definitions

1. noun. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics

   Synonyms: supplanting

5. noun. act of removing from office or employment
6. noun. to move something from its natural environment

   Synonyms: deracination

7. noun. the act of uniform movement

   Synonyms: translation

8. noun. an event in which something is displaced without rotation

   Synonyms: shift

9. noun. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
10. noun. (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound

Synonyms

supplanting, deracination, translation, shift

Common word forms

displacements

Words from these letters

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