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Transferred vs Displacement - What's the difference?

transferred | displacement |

As a verb transferred

is past tense of transfer.

As a noun displacement is

the act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.

transferred

English

Alternative forms

* transfered

Verb

(head)
  • (transfer)

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    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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