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Displacement vs Shifting - What's the difference?

displacement | shifting |

As nouns the difference between displacement and shifting

is that displacement is the act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place while shifting is a shift or change; a shifting movement.

As a verb shifting is

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displacement

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
  • * (rfdate)
    • Unnecessary displacement of funds.
  • * (rfdate) .
    • The displacement of the sun by parallax.
  • 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)

    • See also

    *

    shifting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shift or change; a shifting movement.
  • * (Charles Lamb)
    • I remember the last time I saw Macbeth played, the discrepancy I felt at the changes of garment which he varied, the shiftings and reshiftings, like a Romish priest at mass.
  • * 1978 , Jack Vance, The View from Chickweed's Window
    • Then everyone moved at the same time — slight shiftings of the hands and feet, furtive easings of position.