displacement
Nouns
- (n) act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics supplanting,
- (n) an event in which something is displaced without rotation shift,
- (n) the act of uniform movement translation,
- (n) (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound displacement reaction,
- (n) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
- (n) to move something from its natural environment deracination,
- (n) act of removing from office or employment