Look up displacement in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Displacement may refer to: Displacement (geometry), is the difference between the final and initial...
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Forced displacement (also forced migration or forced relocation) is an involuntary or coerced movement of a person or people away from their home or home...
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The displacement or displacement tonnage of a ship is its weight. As the term indicates, it is measured indirectly, using Archimedes' principle, by first...
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In geometry and mechanics, a displacement is a vector whose length is the shortest distance from the initial to the final position of a point P undergoing...
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In physics, Wien's displacement law states that the black-body radiation curve for different temperatures will peak at different wavelengths that are inversely...
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Engine displacement is the measure of the cylinder volume swept by all of the pistons of a piston engine, excluding the combustion chambers. It is commonly...
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In fluid mechanics, displacement occurs when an object is largely immersed in a fluid, pushing it out of the way and taking its place. The volume of the...
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The angular displacement (symbol θ, ϑ, or φ) – also called angle of rotation, rotational displacement, or rotary displacement – of a physical body is...
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Displacement mapping is an alternative computer graphics technique in contrast to bump, normal, and parallax mapping, using a texture or height map to...
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In psychology, displacement (German: Verschiebung, lit. 'shift, move') is an unconscious defence mechanism whereby the mind substitutes either a new aim...
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In electromagnetism, displacement current density is the quantity ∂D/∂t appearing in Maxwell's equations that is defined in terms of the rate of change...
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Displacement field may refer to: Displacement field (mechanics) Electric displacement field This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...
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Displacement activities occur when an animal experiences high motivation for two or more conflicting behaviours: the resulting displacement activity is...
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Variable displacement is an automobile engine technology that allows the engine displacement to change, usually by deactivating cylinders, for improved...
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Time displacement in sociology refers to the idea that new forms of activities may replace older ones. New activities that cause time displacement are...
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tectonics, vertical displacement refers to the shifting of land in a vertical direction, resulting in uplift and subsidence. The displacement of rock layers...
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Character displacement is the phenomenon where differences among similar species whose distributions overlap geographically are accentuated in regions...
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Positive displacement may refer to: Positive displacement pump Positive displacement meter Positive displacement pipette This disambiguation page lists...
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Particle displacement or displacement amplitude is a measurement of distance of the movement of a sound particle from its equilibrium position in a medium...
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In fencing, displacement is a movement that avoids or dodges an attack. Fencers commonly use displacement when attacking while not having priority. Attacking...
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In mechanics, a displacement field is the assignment of displacement vectors for all points in a region or body that are displaced from one state to another...
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Crime displacement is the relocation of crime (or criminals) as a result of police crime-prevention efforts. Crime displacement has been linked to problem-oriented...
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In the quantum mechanics study of optical phase space, the displacement operator for one mode is the shift operator in quantum optics, D ^ ( α ) = exp...
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In linguistics, displacement is the capability of language to communicate about things that are not immediately present (spatially or temporally); i.e...
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Earth crustal displacement or Earth crust displacement may refer to: Plate tectonics, scientific theory which describes the large scale motions of Earth's...
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The displacement–length ratio (DLR or D/L ratio) is a calculation used to express how heavy a boat is relative to its waterline length. DLR was first published...
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Time travel (redirect from Temporal Displacement Device)
Time travel is the hypothetical activity of traveling into the past or future. Time travel is a widely recognized concept in philosophy and fiction, particularly...
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Schoenflies (or Schönflies) displacement (or motion) named after Arthur Moritz Schoenflies is a rigid body motion consisting of linear motion in three...
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Air displacement plethysmography (ADP, also known as whole-body air displacement plethysmography) is a recognized and scientifically validated densitometric...
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Pump (redirect from Positive displacement pump)
Pumps can be classified by their method of displacement into electromagnetic pumps, positive-displacement pumps, impulse pumps, velocity pumps, gravity...
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