сдвиг — meaning in English
sdvig
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English meaning
- displacement noun The forced movement of people from their homes, especially by war, persecution, disaster or development.
- shift verb To move something from one place or position to another.
- upheaval noun A sudden, dramatic change that disrupts the normal state of things.
Senses
сдвиг 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.
- upheaval The process of being heaved upward, especially the raising of part of the earth's crust.
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.
shift — full definition
- verb To move something from one place or position to another.
- verb To change gears in a vehicle.
- noun A scheduled block of working time.
- noun A keyboard key used to type capital letters or alternate characters.