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換置,轉位,移動
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Displacement \Dis*place"ment\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]placement.]
1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a
putting out of place.
Unnecessary displacement of funds. --A. Hamilton.
The displacement of the sun by parallax. --Whewell.
2. 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.
3. (Chem.) 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.
{Piston displacement} (Mech.), the volume of the space swept
through, or weight of steam, water, etc., displaced, in a
given time, by the piston of a steam engine or pump.
資料來源 : WordNet®
displacement
n 1: an event in which something is displaced without rotation
[syn: {shift}]
2: act of taking the place of another especially using
underhanded tactics [syn: {supplanting}]
3: the act of uniform movement [syn: {translation}]
4: (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance
displaces and sets free a constituent element from a
compound [syn: {displacement reaction}]
5: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or
reaction from the original object to some more acceptable
one
6: to move something from its natural environment [syn: {deracination}]
7: act of removing from office or employment