What is the meaning of DISPLACE. Phrases containing DISPLACE
See meanings and uses of DISPLACE!DISPLACE
DISPLACE
DISPLACE
DISPLACE
DISPLACE
DISPLACE
Acronyms & AI meanings
: Member
Development Consultants International
Joint Prospecting for Mineral Resources
Development Partner Profiles
Moore Eye Institute
Airborne Signals Intelligence Payload
Improving Local Partnerships
Remote Objects for Java
waiting-list control group
Receive Frequency
DISPLACE
DISPLACE
DISPLACE
imp. & p. p.
of Displace
n.
The act of unshipping, or the state of being unshipped; displacement.
n.
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.
v. t.
To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate; as, to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel.
v. i.
To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure.
n.
The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
n.
A mountain range owing its origin to the progress of a geosynclinal, and ending in a catastrophe of displacement and upturning.
n.
The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.
n.
One that displaces.
v. t.
To move or loosen from a settled position or state; to unfix; to displace; to disorder; to confuse.
n.
To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince.
n.
Any twisting or displacement of the intestines causing obstruction; ileus. See Ileus.
n.
The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement.
v. t.
To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.
v. t.
To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.
n.
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.
n.
A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
a.
Capable of being displaced.
v. t.
To displace; to unfix by violence.
n.
A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
DISPLACE
DISPLACE