Displacement
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Displacement may refer to:
- Displacement (vector), in Newtonian mechanics, specifies the position of a point or a particle in reference to an origin or to a previous position
- Displacement field (mechanics), as used in the continuum body mechanics
- Electric displacement field, as appears in Maxwell's equations
- Engine displacement, the total volume of air/fuel mixture an engine can draw in during one complete engine cycle
- Displacement (fencing), a movement that avoids or dodges an attack
- Displacement (fluid), an object immersed in a fluid pushes it out of the way. Ship measurement
- Displacement hull, where the moving hull's weight is supported by buoyancy alone and it must displace water from its path rather than planing on the water's surface
- Particle displacement, acoustics of sound in Earth's atmosphere
- Forced migration, by persecution or violence
- Displacement (psychology), a sub-conscious defense mechanism
- Displacement (psiology, parapsychology, psychical science), a statistical or qualitative correspondence between targets and responses
- Single or double displacement reaction, a chemical reaction concerning the exchange of ions
- Displacement (Orthopedic surgery), change in alignment of the fracture fragments
- Earth Crustal Displacement, the shifting of earth's crust as a whole
- Particle displacement is a measurement of distance of the movement of a particle in a medium (air) as it transmits a wave.
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