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displacement

noun
  1. act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
    supplanting
  2. act of removing from office or employment
  3. to move something from its natural environment
    deracination
  4. the act of uniform movement
    translation
  5. an event in which something is displaced without rotation
    shift
  6. a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
    “I think your anger at the couch might be a form of displacement.”
  7. (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
    displacement reaction