Supersede vs Displacement - What's the difference?
supersede | displacement |
Set (something) aside.
Take the place of.
Displace in favour of another.
(Internet) An updated newsgroup post that supersedes an earlier version.
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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.
(grammar)
As nouns the difference between supersede and displacement
is that supersede is (internet) an updated newsgroup post that supersedes an earlier version while displacement is the act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.As a verb supersede
is set (something) aside.supersede
English
Verb
- No one could supersede his sister.
- Modern US culture has superseded the native forms.
Usage notes
(term) is the only English word ending in (term). Similar words include four ending in (term), and several ending in (term) (apart from seed). Because of this, supercede is a common misspelling of this word.Synonyms
* (take the place of) replace, supplant, usurpSee also
* supercede and superseed (common misspellings) * supersedure * supersessionNoun
(en noun)- Rogue cancels and supersedes are being issued on a large scale against posters.
References
displacement
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- Unnecessary displacement of funds.
- The displacement of the sun by parallax.