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displacement

English

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

Spanish

  1. 🔊 desplazamiento displacement

Similar words

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