displacement
Word family
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++dis·place·ment /dɪsˈpleɪsmənt/ AWL noun 1. [uncountable] formalPGLEAVE A PLACE when a group of people or animals are forced to leave the place where they usually live 〔人群或兽群的〕被迫迁徙2. [singular]HPTTW technical the weight or volume of liquid that something replaces when it floats in that liquid – used especially to describe how heavy something such as a ship is 〔尤指表示船舶等重量的〕排水量
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displacement• An appropriate inversion becomes a deconstructive displacement.• Disease, displacement and alien acrimony caused these people to all but disappear from Tierra del Fuego.• What is relevant to the worker elites, however, is the fundamental change in the incidence of displacement.• In the primary processes of the unconscious system, psychical energy flows freely by means of displacement and condensation.• Deconstruction is not just a reversal of strategies or a neutralisation of binary opposites: it is a process of displacement.• The pulse.shaped output from the detectors have a slight phase displacement, the sign of which depends on the direction of rotation.• The layering is disrupted by small scale displacement along fault planes.• This causes the beam to bend and the displacement is measured by means of a strain gauge or a differential transformer.dis·place·ment nounChineseSyllable
group when Corpus of a or are animals people
displacement
dis‧place‧ment AC /dɪsˈpleɪsmənt/
noun
2. [singular] technical the weight or volume of liquid that something replaces when it floats in that liquid – used especially to describe how heavy something such as a ship is
dis‧place‧ment AC /dɪsˈpleɪsmənt/
noun Word Family: noun: place, placement, placing, displacement, replacement; verb: place, displace, misplace, replace; adjective: displaced, misplaced, replaceable
1. [uncountable] formal when a group of people or animals are forced to leave the place where they usually live2. [singular] technical the weight or volume of liquid that something replaces when it floats in that liquid – used especially to describe how heavy something such as a ship is