Displacement

The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.

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.

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.

The shortest distance from the initial to the final position of an object

(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