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displace
Found in thesaurus: move, displace, replace, supersede, supercede, supervene upon, supplant, eject, chuck out, expel, exclude, kick out, turn out, boot out, throw out, turf out, resettle
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displace
v.
move from its usual place; remove from office; oust, replace, take the place of
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Displacement
Displacement may refer to:
Physical sciences
Physics
- Displacement (vector), the difference between the final and initial position of a point (for instance, the center of mass of a moving object). The actual path covered to reach the final position is irrelevant. It can simply be defined as the length of the shortest path between the final point and initial point of a body
- Particle displacement, a measurement of distance of the movement of a particle in a medium as it transmits a wave (represented in mathematics by the lower-case Greek letter ξ)
- Displacement field (mechanics), an assignment of displacement vectors for all points in a body that is displaced from one state to another
- Electric displacement field, as appears in Maxwell's equations
- Wien's displacement law, a relation concerning the spectral distribution of blackbody radiation
- Angular displacement, a change in orientation of a rigid body, the amount of rotation about a fixed axis.
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displace
Verb
1. take the place of
(hypernym) move
(derivation) supplanting, displacement
2. force to move; "the refugees were displaced by the war"
(synonym) force out
(hypernym) move
(hyponym) transplant, transfer
3. move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people"
(synonym) uproot, deracinate
(hypernym) place
4. cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"
(synonym) move
(hyponym) mobilize, mobilise, circulate
(cause) move
(verb-group) travel, go, move, locomote
5. remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space"
(synonym) dislodge, bump
(hypernym) expel, eject, chuck out, exclude, throw out, kick out, turf out, boot out, turn out
(hyponym) throw
6. put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; "The colonists displaced the natives"
(synonym) dislocate
(hypernym) resettle
(derivation) displacement, deracination
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displace
v.
sesadit; vytlačit; vyhnat
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displace
Czas.
zajmować czyjeś/czegoś miejsce; wysiedlać; przemieszczać
