Defenition of the word displacement
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Defenition of the word displacement
- act of removing from office or employment
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
- the act of uniform movement
- to move something from its natural environment
- (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
Synonyms for the word displacement
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- disarticulation
- dislocation
- dislodgment
- shift
- supplanting
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Similar words in the displacement
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- displacement
- displacement's
- displacements
Hyponyms for the word displacement
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- amplitude
- luxation
- transference
Hypernyms for the word displacement
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- chemical reaction
- defence
- defence mechanism
- defence reaction
- defense
- defense mechanism
- defense reaction
- motion
- move
- movement
- reaction
- rejection
- replacement
- replacing
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