Magnitude vs Displacement - What's the difference?
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(uncountable, countable) The absolute or relative size, extent or importance of something.
(countable) An order of magnitude.
(mathematics) A number, assigned to something, such that it may be compared to others numerically
(mathematics) Of a vector, the norm, most commonly, the two-norm.
(astronomy) The apparent brightness of a star (on a negative, logarithmic scale); apparent magnitude
(seismology) A measure of the energy released by an earthquake (e.g. on the Richter scale).
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 magnitude and displacement
is that magnitude is (uncountable|countable) the absolute or relative size, extent or importance of something while displacement is the act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.magnitude
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* order of magnitude * absolute magnitude * apparent magnitudedisplacement
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(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- Unnecessary displacement of funds.
- The displacement of the sun by parallax.