9 example sentences using displacement.
Displacement used in a sentence
Displacement in a sentence as a noun
Adults seem to make a very big deal about their children; they have an awful lot of displacement.
Small displacement engines are efficient but consumers don't want to trade half their horsepower for 5-10mpg.
Our best angle sensors [5] sense a nanoradian's angular displacement in less than a second.
But if I introduce a tiny element of stochastic displacement in your timeline, you will wonder, hey, where did this come from , when did I do that, etc.
For the same displacement, an engine running twice as fast can theoretically generate twice as much horsepower.
Those people are also historically more aware of their surroundings and the culture that they are moving into and tend to show solidarity with the lower income residents that they are paving the way towards displacement for.
"Compared with larger, more established automakers, the company is less likely “to successfully adapt to competitive and technological displacement risks over the medium to long term,” they said.
I think the parent was commenting on the irony of this statement considering that the big US automakers were recently recipients of a large government bailout precisely because they couldn't "successfully adapt to competitive and technological displacement risks over the medium to long term".
Render this old effect as greyscale into a buffer than use it as a height/displacement-map style texture - with this solution implementing real-time ripples and fluid like response to objects entering the liquid comes down to rendering the outline into that buffer and these kinds of waves simply fall out rather than requiring maintenance or trig calls...
Displacement definitions
act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
See also: supplanting
an event in which something is displaced without rotation
See also: shift
the act of uniform movement
See also: translation
(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
to move something from its natural environment
See also: deracination
act of removing from office or employment