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Displacements

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

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noun
  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    The quantity of a liquid displaced by a floating body, as water by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.

  3. 3

    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.

  4. 4

    Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.

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