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What is the difference between displacement and translocation?

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As nouns the difference between displacement and translocation

is that displacement is the act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place while translocation is removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another.

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

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    translocation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another.
  • There happened certain translocations at the deluge. — Woodward.
  • (genetics) A transfer of a chromosomal segment to a new position, especially on a nonhomologous chromosome; the segment so transferred.
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