Dislocation vs Displacement - What's the difference?
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The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
(geology) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.
The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
(materials ) A linear defect in a crystal lattice. Because dislocations can shift within the crystal lattice, they tend to weaken the material, compared to a perfect crystal.
(grammar)
The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
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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.
(chemistry) 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.
(fencing) Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
(physics) A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
(grammar)
As nouns the difference between dislocation and displacement
is that dislocation is the act of displacing, or the state of being displaced while displacement is the act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.dislocation
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(en noun)See also
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(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- Unnecessary displacement of funds.
- The displacement of the sun by parallax.