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Displacement vs Disposition - What's the difference?

displacement | disposition |

As nouns the difference between displacement and disposition

is that displacement is the act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place while disposition is the arrangement or placement of certain things.

As a verb disposition is

to remove or place in a different position.

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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    disposition

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The arrangement or placement of certain things.
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  • Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.
  • Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.
  • *
  • He was, indeed, a lad of a remarkable disposition ; sober, discreet, and pious beyond his age...
  • Control over something.
  • (label) Transfer or relinquishment to the care or possession of another.
  • (label) Final decision or settlement.
  • (label) The destination of a patient after medical treatment such as surgery.
  • (label) The set of choirs of strings on a harpsichord.
  • Derived terms

    * dispositional * ambulatory disposition * disposition hearing * testamentary disposition

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove or place in a different position.