Displacement vs Replacement - What's the difference?
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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.
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A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
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The act of replacing something.
As nouns the difference between displacement and replacement
is that displacement is the act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place while replacement is a person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.displacement
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(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- Unnecessary displacement of funds.
- The displacement of the sun by parallax.
See also
*replacement
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Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Rovers lost keeper Robinson to a calf problem at half-time and his replacement Mark Bunn, making his Premier League debut, was immediately called into action - pushing away a vicious Peter Odemwingie drive at the near post.}}