displacement : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: displacement	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
displacement n act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics Synonym(s): supplanting, displacement an event in which something is displaced without rotation Synonym(s): shift, displacement the act of uniform movement Synonym(s): translation, displacement (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound Synonym(s): displacement, displacement reaction (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one to move something from its natural environment Synonym(s): displacement, deracination act of removing from office or employment
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fault \Fault\, n. 1. (Elec.) A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit. 2. (Geol. & Mining) A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping. Note: The surface along which the dislocated masses have moved is called the {fault plane}. When this plane is vertical, the fault is a {vertical fault}; when its inclination is such that the present relative position of the two masses could have been produced by the sliding down, along the fault plane, of the mass on its upper side, the fault is a {normal}, [or] {gravity}, {fault}. When the fault plane is so inclined that the mass on its upper side has moved up relatively, the fault is then called a {reverse} (or {reversed}), {thrust}, or {overthrust}, {fault}. If no vertical displacement has resulted, the fault is then called a {horizontal fault}. The linear extent of the dislocation measured on the fault plane and in the direction of movement is the {displacement}; the vertical displacement is the {throw}; the horizontal displacement is the {heave}. The direction of the line of intersection of the fault plane with a horizontal plane is the {trend} of the fault. A fault is a {strike fault} when its trend coincides approximately with the strike of associated strata (i.e., the line of intersection of the plane of the strata with a horizontal plane); it is a {dip fault} when its trend is at right angles to the strike; an {oblique fault} when its trend is oblique to the strike. Oblique faults and dip faults are sometimes called {cross faults}. A series of closely associated parallel faults are sometimes called {step faults} and sometimes {distributive faults}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Displacement \Displace"ment\, n. [Cf. F. d[82]placement.] 1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place. Unnecessary displacement* of funds. --A. Hamilton. The displacement of the sun by parallax. --Whewell. 2. 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. 3. (Chem.) 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. {Piston displacement} (Mech.), the volume of the space swept through, or weight of steam, water, etc., displaced, in a given time, by the piston of a steam engine or pump.