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displacement n. [
supplanting] act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
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displacement n. [
shift] an event in which something is displaced without rotation
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displacement n. [
translation] the act of uniform movement
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displacement n. [
displacement reaction] (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
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displacement n. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
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