deslocamento — meaning in English
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English meaning
- dislocation noun An injury in which a bone is forced out of its normal joint position.
- displacement noun The forced movement of people from their homes, especially by war, persecution, disaster or development.
- motion noun Movement from one place or position to another.
Senses
deslocamento is used for these senses in English:
- dislocation The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
- dislocation The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
- motion (philosophy) from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
dislocation — full definition
- noun An injury in which a bone is forced out of its normal joint position.
- noun A disruption or displacement, in a general or figurative sense.
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.