What is "displacements"

Usage examples of "displacements".

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.

Waiting until the planet was far enough from Pern to assure that displacements would be negligible was one of the main reasons we had to delay the blasts, to achieve the maximum effect.

VISAR noticed that the predicted displacements were present in some of the views we were shown, but completely missing from others.

By repeating this process, the cryptanalyst can list the differences between many of the displacements on the rotor.

There had been an hour or so of failed attempts to repeat his initial success, then he’d managed to perform two Displacements in succession.

On the third day he attempted and conducted only two Displacements, to either end of the ship.

He had made six successful Displacements in a row within the mock-up of the Hub which had been constructed within the station orbiting the sun-moon of the airsphere.

If I had been told to do so, I would have prevented Quilan from making his Displacements, not taken over and done them for him had he demurred.

In the end it was decided that sufficient other safeguards had been put in place for the Displacements to go ahead, with the aim of backtracking along the attempted wormhole link to discover and even attack the Involveds behind the attack (this failed and to the best of my knowledge it is still not known who those mysterious allies were, though I’m sure SC has its suspicions).

The crustal displacement theory envisages the possibility of periodic displacements of the entire crust in one piece.

Hapgood envisaged that both could occur: that the earth’s crust did indeed exhibit continental drift as the geologists claimed—almost imperceptibly, over hundreds of millions of years—but that it also occasionally experienced very rapid one-piece displacements which had no effect on the relationships between individual landmasses but which thrust entire continents (or parts of them) into and out of the planet’s two fixed polar zones (the perennially cold and icy regions surrounding the North and South Poles of the axis of spin).

Since the shifts of the assemblage point are displacements within the luminous ball, the worlds engendered by them, no matter how bizarre or wondrous or unbelievable they might be, are still worlds within the human domain.

By contrast, movements of the assemblage point, since they are displacements to positions outside the luminous ball, engage filaments of energy that are beyond the human realm.

Such quantum superpositions occur in the electron displacements in a quantcomp.

It's much the same as the superpositions of electron displacements in a quantputer.