Definitions For Displacement

noun

• Act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
• Act of removing from office or employment
• To move something from its natural environment
• The act of uniform movement
• An event in which something is displaced without rotation
• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
• (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound