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gnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.

), a bearing which is supported in such a manner that it may tip to accomodate flexure or displacement of the shaft.

An old French copper coin, equivalent in value to, and now displaced by, the five-centime piece (sou.

To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure. To start after, to set out after; to follow; to pursue. -- To start against, to act as a rival candidate against. -- To start for, to be a candidate for, as an office. -- To start up, to rise suddenly, as from a seat…

To displace, or set aside, and put another in place of; as, to supersede an officer.

To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince. Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the friend. Bp. Fell.

range owing its origin to the progress of a geosynclinal, and ending in a catastrophe of displacement and upturning. Dana.

The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.

A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.

To displace; to unfix by violence. Blackmore.

To move or loosen from a settled position or state; to unfix; to displace; to disorder; to confuse.

The act of unshipping, or the state of being unshipped; displacement.

on; -- sometimes called virtual work. -- Virtual velocity (Mech.), a minute hypothetical displacement, assumed in analysis to facilitate the investigation of statical problems. With respect to any given force of a number of forces holding a material system in equilibrium, it is the projection, upon the direction of th…

Any twisting or displacement of the intestines causing obstruction; ileus. See Ileus.

or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm. Wave front (Physics), the surface of initial displacement of the particles in a medium, as a wave of vibration advances. -- Wave length (Physics), the space, reckoned in the direction of propagation, occupied by a complete wave or undulation, as of light, sound, etc.; the d…