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What is the noun for displacing?

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displacement
  1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
  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. (chemistry) 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.
  4. (fencing) Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
  5. (physics) A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
  6. (grammar) The capability of a communication system to refer to things that are not present (that existed or will exist at another time, or that exist at another location).
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  8. Examples:
    1. “His life had been rendered completely ungovernable by the combination of poverty, homelessness, and displacement from his native country.”
      “Thus, where Goethe sees Hamlet's resentment as rooted in his displacement from the throne, Bradley sees only a melancholy prince wholly justified in his eccentric behavior.”
      “The displacement of the trees from their site and the placing of them in a non-site operated as a reflection on the fragmentation of identity.”
displacer
  1. One who, or that which, displaces.
  2. (chemistry) The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “This means that if the gate is in the horizontal position, the gate torque is at its maximum and the displacer at its minimum.”
      “The next stage in this adjudication is to determine why the displacer was not designed larger.”
      “On the other hand, the maximum possible diameter of the displacer must be taken into consideration.”
displaceability
  1. Quality or degree of being displaceable.
displaceabilities
  1. plural of displaceability
displacements
  1. plural of displacement
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The filter states include displacements from the nominal track, the cant, and the track gauge.”
      “An average of displacements of respective different color marks from a reference position is then calculated.”
      “The displacements of the cytoplasmic moieties of these helices amount to 0.1-0.2 nm.”
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