displacements
Shifts from position
Displacements is the plural of displacement, a noun covering several related ideas of moving something from its usual position.
In physics, displacement measures how far an object has moved from its starting point in a specific direction.
The term also describes the volume of water pushed aside by a floating object, used to measure a ship's size: a vessel with a displacement of 50,000 tons.
More broadly, displacements refer to people forced from their homes by war, disaster, or persecution, or to the psychological process of redirecting emotions from their original target to a safer one.
Change in position
- shiftMovement or work period
- relocationPermanent change of residence
- dislocationForced out of position
- migrationMovement to new territory
repositioning · transfer · upheaval · removal · uprooting · evacuation · expulsion · resettlement
Something that extends outward
- transferenceRedirecting feelings to substitutes
- sublimationSolid to gas directly
- defense mechanismUnconscious self-protective mental process
- FreudFounder of psychoanalysis
unconscious · repression · substitution · psychoanalysis · ego · anxiety · redirect · neurosis
Reciprocating cylinder component
- cylinderCircular-based solid form
- engineMachine producing motion
- volumeAmount of space filled
- strokeSudden brain blood blockage
bore · cubic centimeters · horsepower · crankshaft · compression · motor · turbine · hydraulic
Imperfection or blame
- tectonicOf crustal forces
- seismicRelating to ground tremors
- earthquakeSeismic ground movement
- crustalOf outer rock layer
plate · uplift · subsidence · slip · rupture · thrust · continental drift · strata
movement
Change in position
- shiftMovement or work period
- relocationPermanent change of residence
- dislocationForced out of position
migration · repositioning · transfer · upheaval · removal · uprooting · evacuation · expulsion · resettlement · transplantation
projection
Something that extends outward
- transferenceRedirecting feelings to substitutes
- sublimationSolid to gas directly
- defense mechanismUnconscious self-protective mental process
Freud · unconscious · repression · substitution · psychoanalysis · ego · anxiety · redirect · neurosis · coping
piston
Reciprocating cylinder component
stroke · bore · cubic centimeters · horsepower · crankshaft · compression · motor · turbine · hydraulic · fluid
fault
Imperfection or blame
- tectonicOf crustal forces
- seismicRelating to ground tremors
- earthquakeSeismic ground movement
crustal · plate · uplift · subsidence · slip · rupture · thrust · continental drift · strata · bedrock
draft
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waterline · Archimedes · submersion · vessel · ship · cargo · ballast · freeboard · keel · maritime
displacementsreplacements
Items taking others' places
restorations · repositionings · returns · reinstatements · fixations
displacementssettlements
Established communities or agreements
resettlements · repatriations · homecomings · returns · immigrations
displacementsstabilities
States of secure balance
equilibriums · steadiness · constancies · fixities · permanences
- water displacementVolume of liquid moved aside
- native displacementForcing indigenous people elsewhere
- forced displacementCoerced removal from home
- job displacementLoss of employment position
- cultural displacement
- civilian displacementForced movement of noncombatants