Absetzung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- deposition noun The formal removal of someone from a position of power or office.
- displacement noun The forced movement of people from their homes, especially by war, persecution, disaster or development.
Senses
Absetzung is used for these senses in English:
- defenestration (Britain) The high-profile removal of a person from an organization.
- deposition The removal of someone from office.
- 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.
deposition — full definition
- noun The formal removal of someone from a position of power or office.
- noun A formal, sworn statement of testimony given outside a courtroom, usually during legal proceedings.
- noun The natural process by which material such as sediment, snow, or frost settles or builds up somewhere.
displacement — full definition
- noun The forced movement of people from their homes, especially by war, persecution, disaster or development.
- 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.
- 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.
- noun In psychology, the redirecting of a feeling from the person or thing that caused it onto a safer target.