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изме́стване — meaning in English

izmestvane

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English meaning

  • dislocation noun An injury in which a bone is forced out of its normal joint position.
  • displacement noun The forced movement of people from their homes, especially by war, persecution, disaster or development.

Senses

изме́стване is used for these senses in English:

  • dislocation The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
  • dislocation The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
  • displacement The weight of a ship or other floating vessel, traditionally measured or calculated by finding the volume of the vessel below the waterline when afloat, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the whole displacing body.

dislocation — full definition

  1. noun An injury in which a bone is forced out of its normal joint position.
  2. noun A disruption or displacement, in a general or figurative sense.

displacement — full definition

  1. noun The forced movement of people from their homes, especially by war, persecution, disaster or development.
  2. noun In physics, how far and in what direction an object has moved from its starting point, measured as a straight line rather than along the path travelled.
  3. noun The volume or weight of fluid pushed aside by an object floating or immersed in it, used to state the size of a ship or the capacity of an engine.
  4. noun In psychology, the redirecting of a feeling from the person or thing that caused it onto a safer target.

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