An event in which something is displaced without rotation

Usage examples of displacement.

These archeological sites provide mute testimony to the often cruel and brutal displacement of Native Americans by Euro-Americans.

Presumably the displacement calculated by calculating the locations of notes in the melody should be consistent with the rules for calculating the locations of chords, particularly if the chords are implied by the melody.

There was uterine displacement and some endocervicitis, but no history of injury or operation and no tendency to contraction.

Even should they survive three jumps on a mass displacement ship, or crazy ship in the common vernacular, they will still arrive at the colony with no assets and little prospects of earning an independent living, or so it is said.

The last thing he saw and heard was the judge sentencing the pony tailed redhead to three jumps on the displacement ships, also under the tutorage of the Tremaine Corporation.

They had been spared the holding cells, the judging procedure, and all the rest of the degradation most of those sentenced to jumps on the mass displacement ships were subject to, even though they had as little choice as the prisoners or the rare volunteer.

When the displacement is sufficient to cause any serious disturbance, the prominent symptoms are a sensation of dragging and weight in the region of the womb, pain in the back and loins, inability to lift weights, great fatigue from walking, leucorrhea, a frequent desire to urinate, irritation of the lower bowel, and derangement of the stomach.

If one of the loads is at C, spread over a very small distance in the neighbourhood of C, then a very small displacement of the loads will permit the fulfilment of the condition.

A displacement of the assemblage point beyond the midline of the cocoon of man makes the entire world we know vanish from our view in one instant, as if it had been erased--for the stability, the substantiality, that seems to belong to our perceivable world is just the force of alignment.

Furthermore, displacements of the pelvic organs frequently result from these unnatural and absurd articles of dress.

In Manila, as well as in the towns of the provinces mentioned, the earthquake did incalculable harm to buildings, besides causing subsidences, fissures, lateral displacements and similar effects, especially in the alluvial lands along the banks of the Rivers Pasig, the Great and Little Pampanga, and the Agno.

Russian settled back in his acceleration couch and released a long-held breath before ordering the ship turned around to commence the retrofiring that would bring him into position to cover the displacement point in case any chance Korvaash traffic should pass through.

Using his known or assumed plaintext values, the cryptanalyst sets up equations in which the displacements of the several rotors constitute the unknowns, and then, using higher algebra, solves the equations for them.

From my experiential position, such displacements meant that my awareness used to enter into a most disturbing state of unequaled clarity, a state of superconsciousness, which I enjoyed for short periods of time and in which I could understand anything with minimal pre ambles.

The title referred to his sense of unbelonging and chronic displacement.