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Displacement
The term displacement can have one of several meanings, depending on context:
- Displacement (distance), a physical quantity in kinematics
- Particle displacement, acoustics of sound in air
- Displacement (fluid), a different physical quantity, used in fluid mechanics and navigation; used as a measure of a ship's size
- Engine displacement, a property of an internal combustion engine
- Displacement (psychology)
- Displacement (fencing)
- Displacement aka offset used in relative addressing of computer memory
- Displacement of people by persecution or violence
- Electric displacement field, a physical quantity in electrodynamics
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