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перемеще́ние — meaning in English

peremeshcheniye

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English meaning

  • displacement noun The forced movement of people from their homes, especially by war, persecution, disaster or development.
  • relocation noun The act of moving to a new place, especially a home or business.
  • shift verb To move something from one place or position to another.

Senses

перемеще́ние is used for these senses in English:

  • displacement The weight of a ship or other floating vessel, traditionally measured or calculated by finding the volume of the vessel below the waterline when afloat, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the whole displacing body.
  • displacement (physics) A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
  • relocation The act of moving from one place to another.

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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