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Exodus vs Displacement - What's the difference?

exodus | displacement |

As nouns the difference between exodus and displacement

is that exodus is a sudden departure of a large number of people while displacement is the act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.

exodus

English

(Exodus)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (the Exodus) The departure of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt under the leadership of Moses.
  • The second of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the second book in the Torah describing the Exodus.
  • 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)
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