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Magnitude vs Displacement - What's the difference?

magnitude | displacement |

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

English

Noun

  • (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).
  • Derived terms

    * order of magnitude * absolute magnitude * apparent magnitude

    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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