Displacement
The term displacement can have one of several meanings, depending on context:
- Displacement (distance), a physical quantity in kinematics
- another term for a congruent transformation in geometry
- Electric displacement field, a physical quantity in electrodynamics
- Engine displacement, a property of an internal combustion engine
- Displacement (fencing)
- Displacement (fluid), a different physical quantity, used in fluid mechanics and navigation; used as a measure of a ship's size
- 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
- Displacement aka offset used in relative addressing of computer memory
- Particle displacement, acoustics of sound in air
- Displacement of people by persecution or violence
- Displacement (psychology)
- Single or double displacement reaction, a chemical reaction concerning the exchange of ions
- Displacement in Orthopedic surgery refers to change in alignment of the fracture fragments.