DISPLACEMENT

Displacement

A ship's displacement or displacement tonnage is the weight of the water that a ship displaces when it is floating; the term is defined ordinarily such that the ship's fuel tanks are full and all stores are aboard. The term is applied usually to naval vessels. Displacement is the actual weight of the ship, since a floating body displaces its own weight in water . Another way of thinking about displacement is the weight of the water that would spill out of a completely filled container were the ship placed into it.

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displacement

Noun

  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. 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. Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
  5. A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.


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