Definition of displacement

• n. - The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
• n. - The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.
• n. - The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent.