विस्थापन — meaning in English

English meaning

• displacement noun The forced movement of people from their homes, especially by war, persecution, disaster or development.

Senses

विस्थापन is used for these senses in English:

• displacement physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component

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.