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displacement
/dɪspˈleɪsmənt/ · 12 letters · 11 distinct letters
- noun
act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
- noun
an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- noun
the act of uniform movement
- noun
(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
- noun
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one