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say it: di-SPLAY-smuhnt
displacement is a noun meaning "act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics". It is pronounced /dɪˈspleɪsmənt/ — di-SPLAY-smuhnt. It carries 7 recorded senses.
act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
an event in which something is displaced without rotation
the act of uniform movement
(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
chemistry
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
psychiatry
to move something from its natural environment
act of removing from office or employment
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for displacement come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.