Displacement

(noun.) act of removing from office or employment.

(noun.) to move something from its natural environment.

(noun.) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one.

(noun.) (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound.

科南录入

• To walk involves a displacement and reaction of the resisting earth, whose thrill is felt wherever there is matter. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The latest type of super-dreadnaught for the United States Navy, with a displacement of 27,500 tons and engines of 28,000 horse-power. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The length of the Great Eastern was 692 feet, beam 83 feet, depth 57? feet, draft 25? feet, displacement 27,000 tons, and speed 12 knots. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• She is 400 feet 6 inches long, 64 feet 8 inches breadth, 24 feet draft, 9,215 tons displacement. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The amount of work done depends upon the force used and the distance covered (sometimes called displacement), and hence we can say that Work = force multiplied by distance, or _W = f × d_. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The reason of her sudden displacement now appeared. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The deviation or displacement caused by glass as thin as window panes is too slight to be noticed, and we are not conscious that objects are out of position. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• As in other arts, the distress caused by the displacement of hand-labour by machinery is local and temporary. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• This was 118 feet long by 8 feet 3 inches beam, 106 tons surface and 168 submerged displacement. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Her length is 348 feet, beam 69? feet, draft 24 feet, displacement 10,288 tons, maximum speed 16. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Slight displacements of the raging sea, made by the falling wounded. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.

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