displacement
/dɪsˈpleɪsmənt/noun
mass noun
1
- the moving of something from its place or position移位; 转移：
vertical displacement of the shoreline
海岸线的垂直位移
count noun a displacement of the vertebra at the bottom of the spine.尾椎错位。
1.1
- the removal of someone or something by someone or something else which takes their place代替; 取代：
males may be able to resist displacement by other males.
雄性可能会抗拒被别的雄性取代。
1.2
- the enforced departure of people from their homes, typically because of war, persecution, or natural disaster（多指战争、迫害或自然灾害造成的）人们的离家：
the displacement of farmers by guerrilla activity.
游击队活动造成的农民的背井离乡。
1.3
- count noun the amount by which a thing is moved from a position移动距离：
a displacement of 6.8 metres along the San Andreas fault.
沿着圣安德列亚斯断层移动6.8米。
2
- the occupation by a submerged body or part of a body of a volume which would otherwise be occupied by a fluid.the amount or weight of fluid that would fill such a volume in the case of a floating ship, used as a measure of the ship's size排水量：
the submarine has a surface displacement of 2,185 tons.
该潜艇的水面排水量是2,185吨。
2.1
- technical the volume swept by a reciprocating system, as in a pump or engine〈技〉（循环系统, 如泵或发动机的）排量。
3
- Psychoanalysis the unconscious transfer of an intense emotion from one object to another【心理分析】移位; 移置作用; 情感转移：
this phobia was linked with the displacement of fear of his father.
这种恐惧症和对他父亲的畏惧的移置作用有关。
4
- Physics the component of an electric field due to free separated charges, regardless of any polarizing effects【物理】电位移。
4.1
- the vector representing such a component. the flux density of such an electric field排量。