RhymeZone: displacement definitions

Definitions of 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
noun: act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
noun: the act of uniform movement
noun: an event in which something is displaced without rotation