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e act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place. Unnecessary displacement of funds. A. Hamilton. The displacement of the sun by parallax. Whewell.

A charge of phase whereby an alternating current attains its maximum later or earlier. An inductance would cause a lag, a capacity would cause an advance, in phase.

A displacement forward of an organ, esp. the uterus, in such manner that its axis is bent upon itself. T. G. Thomas.

A displacement of an organ, esp. of the uterus, in such manner that its whole axis is directed further forward than usual.

t of steel and heavily armed, generally having from ten thousand to fifteen thousand tons displacement, and intended to be fit to meet the heaviest ships in line of battle.

of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced. Such are buoyancies or displacements of the different classes of her majesty's ships. Eng. Cyc.

t of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.

The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.

The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement.

The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.

the type characterized by a main armament of big guns all of the same caliber. She has a displacement of 17,900 tons at load draft, and a speed of 21 knots per hour.

A morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial; as, ectopia of the heart, or of the bladder.

To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p.p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.

an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.

natural position of parts, supposed to be effected in thousands of years, by the gradual displacement of germ cells.

An instrument for measuring small movements, distances, or displacements by means of the interference of two beams of light; -- called also refractometer.

The apparent displacement, or difference of position, of an object, as seen from two different stations, or points of view.

ugh the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand. Woodward.

ott, an English surgeon. Pott's fracture, a fracture of the lower end of the fibula, with displacement of the tibia. Dunglison.

A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus.