displacement
/dɪsˈpleɪsmɪnt/ nom C1En français : déplacement
- The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
- The weight of a ship or other floating vessel, traditionally measured or calculated by finding the volume of the vessel below the waterline when afloat, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the whole displacing body.
- 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.
- Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
- A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
- The capability of a communication system to refer to things that are not present (that existed or will exist at another time, or that exist at another location).
- The transfer of feelings or emotions from their intended recipient to another object or person.
- The amount of liquid displaced by a submerged object.
Pluriel displacements
Dans la bibliothèque
My dearest Julian, your recent dispatch from the damp confines of Bloomsbury arrived this morning, bringing a profound sense of temporal displacement to my sunlit breakfast table.
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