Dislocation vs. Displacement
Difference Between Dislocation and Displacement
Dislocationnoun
The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
Displacementnoun
The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
Dislocationnoun
(geology) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.
Displacementnoun
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.
Dislocationnoun
The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
Displacementnoun
(chemistry) 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.
Dislocationnoun
(materials) A linear defect in a crystal lattice. Because dislocations can shift within the crystal lattice, they tend to weaken the material, compared to a perfect crystal.
Displacementnoun
(fencing) Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
Dislocationnoun
(grammar) A sentence structure in which a constituent that could otherwise be either an argument or an adjunct of a clause occurs outside of and adjacent to the clause boundaries. For example, the sentence, "My father, he is a good man", is a left dislocation because the constituent "My father" has been moved to the left of the clause "he is a good man". See dislocation.
Displacementnoun
(physics) A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
Dislocationnoun
an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
Displacementnoun
(grammar) The capability of a communication system to refer to things that are not present (that existed or will exist at another time, or that exist at another location).
Dislocationnoun
the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue;
the social dislocations resulting from government policieshis warning came after the breakdown of talks in LondonDisplacementnoun
an event in which something is displaced without rotation
Dislocationnoun
a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)
Displacementnoun
act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
Displacementnoun
the act of uniform movement
Displacementnoun
(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
Displacementnoun
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
Displacementnoun
to move something from its natural environment
Displacementnoun
act of removing from office or employment
