Displacement - Definition and Overview

Displacement can have one of several meanings:

• Displacement (distance), a physical quantity in kinematics;
• Particle displacement, acoustics of sound in air.
• Displacement (fluid), a different physical quantity, used in fluid mechanics and navigation; used as a measure of a ship's size;
• Engine displacement, a property of an internal combustion engine;
• Displacement (psychology), and
• Displacement (fencing).
• Displacement of people by persecution or violence
• Electric displacement field, a physical quantity in electrodynamics;