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Emplacement vs Displacement - What's the difference?

emplacement | displacement |

As nouns the difference between emplacement and displacement

is that emplacement is an installation that houses a military weapon while displacement is the act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.

emplacement

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An installation that houses a military weapon.
  • A place where a thing is located; the act of placing something somewhere.
  • (geology) The inclusion of igneous rock in older rocks, or the development or localization of an ore body in older rocks. The latter is referred to as ore deposition.
  • 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.
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