What is the meaning of DISPLACEMENT. Phrases containing DISPLACEMENT
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The weight of water displaced by the immersed volume of a ship's hull, exactly equivalent to the weight of the whole ship.
Terms used when describing a ship's turning ability. Advance is the forward progress made between the time that the rudder is put over and the time the ship is steady on her new course. Transfer is the horizontal displacement of the ship during the same period of time.
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Doggo is British slang for intoxicated by marijuana. Doggo is American slang for worthless, inferior or bad.
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The chorus of the song "Wavy Navy" sung by thousands of members of the RCNVR during WWII and continuing into the post-war years.
n The vulva and the vagina.
occasionally ketamine or mixtures such as ephedrine and LSD
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 A hanging
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A mountain range owing its origin to the progress of a geosynclinal, and ending in a catastrophe of displacement and upturning.
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A morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial; as, ectopia of the heart, or of the bladder.
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The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.
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To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.
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The apparent displacement, or difference of position, of an object, as seen from two different stations, or points of view.
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Any twisting or displacement of the intestines causing obstruction; ileus. See Ileus.
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The act of unshipping, or the state of being unshipped; displacement.
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An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current.
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The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement.
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A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus.
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The act of displanting; removal; displacement.
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A deviation from the natural position of parts, supposed to be effected in thousands of years, by the gradual displacement of germ cells.
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The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent.
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The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.
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To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand.
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A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
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A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
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The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
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A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
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The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.
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