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Displacement
The term
displacement
can have one of several meanings, depending on context:
Displacement (distance)
, a
physical quantity
in
kinematics
Particle displacement
,
acoustics
of
sound
in
air
Displacement (fluid)
, a different physical quantity, used in
fluid mechanics
and
navigation
; used as a measure of a ship's size
Engine displacement
, a property of an
internal combustion engine
Displacement (psychology)
Displacement (fencing)
Displacement aka offset
used in relative addressing of
computer memory
Displacement of people
by persecution or violence
Electric displacement field
, a physical quantity in
electrodynamics
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