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The act of placing, or the state of being placed.

ct 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 putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure.

The act of misplacing, or the state of being misplaced.

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.

The act of replacing.

A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl.

One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radical.

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.

, which may be regarded as derived respectively from furfuran, thiophene, and pyrrol by replacement of the CH group by nitrogen; as, furo-monazole. Names exactly analogous to those for the azines are also used; as, oxazole, diazole, etc.

a, as basalt. Basic salt (Chem.), a salt formed from a base or hydroxide by the partial replacement of its hydrogen by a negative or acid element or radical.

f 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.

The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.

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.

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

Having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic; -- said of acids, as oxalic or sulphuric acids. Cf. Diacid, Bibasic.

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.