Exodus vs Displacement - What's the difference?
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(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.
The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
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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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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
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(Exodus)Proper noun
(en proper noun)displacement
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(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- Unnecessary displacement of funds.
- The displacement of the sun by parallax.