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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Displacement \Dis*place"ment\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]placement.]
     1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a
        putting out of place.
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              Unnecessary displacement of funds.    --A. Hamilton.


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              The displacement of the sun by parallax. --Whewell.
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     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.
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     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.
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     {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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fault \Fault\, n. [OE. faut, faute, F. faute (cf. It., Sp., &
     Pg. falta), fr. a verb meaning to want, fail, freq., fr. L.
     fallere to deceive. See {Fail}, and cf. {Default}.]
     1. Defect; want; lack; default.
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              One, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call
              my friend.                            --Shak.
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     2. Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs
        excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
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              As patches set upon a little breach
              Discredit more in hiding of the fault. --Shak.
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     3. A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a
        deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a
        crime.
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     4. (Geol. & Mining)
        (a) A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
        (b) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities
            in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
            --Raymond.
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     5. (Hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
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              Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled,
              With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. --Shak.
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     6. (Tennis) Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
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     7. (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.
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     8. (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 fault}, 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 fault} (or {reversed fault}), {thrust fault}, 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}.
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     {At fault}, unable to find the scent and continue chase;
        hence, in trouble or embarrassment, and unable to proceed;
        puzzled; thrown off the track.
  
     {To find fault}, to find reason for blaming or complaining;
        to express dissatisfaction; to complain; -- followed by
        with before the thing complained of; but formerly by at.
        "Matter to find fault at." --Robynson (More's Utopia).
  
     Syn: -- Error; blemish; defect; imperfection; weakness;
          blunder; failing; vice.
  
     Usage: {Fault}, {Failing}, {Defect}, {Foible}. A fault is
            positive, something morally wrong; a failing is
            negative, some weakness or falling short in a man's
            character, disposition, or habits; a defect is also
            negative, and as applied to character is the absence
            of anything which is necessary to its completeness or
            perfection; a foible is a less important weakness,
            which we overlook or smile at. A man may have many
            failings, and yet commit but few faults; or his faults
            and failings may be few, while his foibles are obvious
            to all. The faults of a friend are often palliated or
            explained away into mere defects, and the defects or
            foibles of an enemy exaggerated into faults. "I have
            failings in common with every human being, besides my
            own peculiar faults; but of avarice I have generally
            held myself guiltless." --Fox. "Presumption and
            self-applause are the foibles of mankind."
            --Waterland.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  displacement
       n 1: an event in which something is displaced without rotation
            [syn: {shift}]
       2: act of taking the place of another especially using
          underhanded tactics [syn: {supplanting}]
       3: the act of uniform movement [syn: {translation}]
       4: (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance
          displaces and sets free a constituent element from a
          compound [syn: {displacement reaction}]
       5: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or
          reaction from the original object to some more acceptable
          one
       6: to move something from its natural environment [syn: {deracination}]
       7: act of removing from office or employment

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  146 Moby Thesaurus words for "displacement":
     Doppler effect, agency, alienation, amotion, autism,
     autistic thinking, avatar, avoidance mechanism, banishment,
     blame-shifting, cashiering, catabolism, catalysis, change,
     commutation, compensation, consubstantiation, decompensation,
     deconsecration, defense mechanism, defrocking, delegation,
     delocalization, deportation, deposal, deposition, deprivation,
     deputation, deputyship, deracination, dereism, dereistic thinking,
     dethronement, disarrangement, disarticulation, disbarment,
     disbarring, discontinuity, discrownment, disenthronement,
     disjointing, dislocation, dismissal, dissociation, draft,
     emotional insulation, escape, escape into fantasy,
     escape mechanism, escapism, exchange, excommunication, expulsion,
     fantasizing, fantasy, firing, flight, forced resignation,
     forcible shift, heterotopia, impeachment, incoherence, isolation,
     kicking upstairs, liquidation, luxation, metabolism, metagenesis,
     metamorphism, metamorphosis, metastasis, metathesis,
     metempsychosis, movement, moving, mutant, mutated form, mutation,
     negativism, ostracism, ousting, overcompensation, overthrow,
     overthrowal, pensioning off, permutation, power of attorney,
     projection, psychotaxis, purge, quid pro quo, rationalization,
     red shift, reincarnation, relegation, relocation, remotion,
     removal, removement, replacement, representation, resistance,
     retirement, ripping out, shift, sinkage,
     sociological adjustive reactions, sport, sublimation, submergence,
     submersion, subrogation, substitution, superannuation,
     supersedence, superseding, supersedure, supersession,
     supplantation, supplanting, supplantment, suspension, switch,
     tit for tat, transanimation, transfiguration, transfigurement,
     transformation, transformism, translation, translocation,
     transmigration, transmogrification, transmutation, transposition,
     transubstantiation, unchurching, unfrocking, unhinging, unjointing,
     unseating, uprooting, vicariousness, wish-fulfillment fantasy,
     wishful thinking, withdrawal
  
  

















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