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Parallelverschiebung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • displacement noun The forced movement of people from their homes, especially by war, persecution, disaster or development.
  • translation noun A version of a text or speech rendered in a different language.

Senses

Parallelverschiebung is used for these senses in English:

  • displacement (physics) A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
  • translation (physics, mathematics) A motion or compulsion to motion in a straight line without rotation or other deformation.

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.

translation — full definition

  1. noun A version of a text or speech rendered in a different language.
  2. noun (biology) The process by which a cell builds proteins from an mRNA sequence.

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