Displacement

The term displacement can have one of several meanings, depending on context:

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• Displacement (distance), a physical quantity in kinematics
• another term for a congruent transformation in geometry
• Electric displacement field, a physical quantity in electrodynamics
• Engine displacement, a property of an internal combustion engine
• Displacement (fencing)
• Displacement (fluid), a different physical quantity, used in fluid mechanics and navigation; used as a measure of a ship's size
• Displacement hull, where the moving hull's weight is supported by buoyancy alone and it must displace water from its path rather than planing on the water's surface
• Displacement aka offset used in relative addressing of computer memory
• Particle displacement, acoustics of sound in air
• Displacement of people by persecution or violence
• Displacement (psychology)
• Single or double displacement reaction, a chemical reaction concerning the exchange of ions
• Displacement in Orthopedic surgery refers to change in alignment of the fracture fragments.