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Noun displacement has 7 senses
- shift, displacement - an event in which something is displaced without rotation
--1 is a kind of translation
--1 has particulars: amplitude; luxation
- supplanting, displacement - act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
--2 is a kind of replacement, replacing
- translation, displacement - the act of uniform movement
--3 is a kind of motion, movement, move
- displacement, displacement reaction - (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
--4 is a kind of chemical reaction, reaction
- displacement - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
--5 is a kind of defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence
--5 has particulars: transference
- displacement, deracination - to move something from its natural environment
--6 is a kind of movement
- displacement - act of removing from office or employment
--7 is a kind of rejection
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