Locomotion vs Displacement - What's the difference?
locomotion | displacement |
The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.
(biology) Self-powered motion by which a whole organism changes its location through walking, running, jumping, crawling, swimming or flying.
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 locomotion and displacement
is that locomotion is the ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so while displacement is the act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.locomotion
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(en-noun)Derived terms
* locomotive * locomotor ----displacement
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(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- Unnecessary displacement of funds.
- The displacement of the sun by parallax.