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
- 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.