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Verschiebung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • adjournment noun The act of pausing or ending a meeting or session, or the period during which it is paused.
  • displacement noun The forced movement of people from their homes, especially by war, persecution, disaster or development.
  • postponement noun A delay to a later time; the act of putting something off.
  • shift verb To move something from one place or position to another.

Senses

Verschiebung is used for these senses in English:

  • displacement (physics) A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
  • postponement A delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding.

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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