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desplazamiento — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • displacement noun The forced movement of people from their homes, especially by war, persecution, disaster or development.
  • offset noun Something that balances out or compensates for something else.
  • shift verb To move something from one place or position to another.

Senses

desplazamiento is used for these senses in English:

  • offset (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.

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.

offset — full definition

  1. noun Something that balances out or compensates for something else.
  2. verb To counterbalance or compensate for something, typically by an opposite effect.

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