displacement (dis plasm ent)

[= F. dé placement; as displace + -ment.] 1. A putting out of place; removal from a former or usual or proper place, or from a position, dignity, or office. The displacement of the centres of the circles. Asiatic Researches. Unnece ary displacement of funds. A. Hamilton . displacement Before we can ascertain the rate of motion of a star from its angular displacement of position in a given time, we must know its absolute distance. J. Croll, Climate and Cosmology, p. 312. 2. A putting in the place of another or of something else; substitution in place; replacement by exchange. The French term rem placement is usually but inaccиrately rendered replacement; the true meaning of the latter word is putting back into its place, and not displace ment or substitution, which conveys the meaning of the French word more correctly. W. A. Miller , Chemistry, III. § 1072. 3. In hydros., the quantity of a liquid which is displaced by a solid body placed in it. If the weight of the displacement is greater than or equal to that of the body, the latter will float; if le , it will sink to the bottom, as a stone. A buoyant material sinks to a level where the pre ure of the fluid displaced is sufficient to counterbalance its weight. The term is most frequently used in connection with ships: as, a ship of 3,000 tons displacement. 4. In phar., a method by which the active principles of organic bodies are extracted from them. The body, reduced to a powder, is subjected to the action of a liquid which di olves the soluble matter. When this has been sufficiently charged, it is displaced or replaced by a quantity of the same or of another liquid. Same as percolation . 5. In mech., the geometrical difference or exact relation between the position of a body at any moment and its initial position. The curve which represents the history of the displace ments of all particles at the same time represents also the history of the displacement of any one particle at different times. Minchin, Uniplanar Kinematics, i. 10. Further, he [Maxwell] has regarded the electric charge of the system as the surface manifestation of a change which took place in the medium when the electrifica. tion was set up. This change he has called Electric Dis placement. IMG:content-2844.png:[blocks in formation] apart, + plicare, fold: see plait, plicate. Hence attractive than the ordinary text-type. Also by apheresis splay, q. v.] I. trans. 1. To un- display -letter. fold; lay open; spread out; expand; disclose, displet (dis'pl), v. t. [Contr. of disciple, v.] To as in carving or di ecting a body. discipline. Berthe up his fethrys displayed like a sayle. Lydgate, Minor Poems, p. 156. Dysplaye that crane. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 265. So having said, eftsoones he gan display His painted nimble wings, and vanisht quite away. Spenser, F. Q., II. viii. 8, The Sunne no sooner displayed his beames, than the Tartar his colours. Capt . John Smith , True Travels, I. 27. 2. To show; expose to the view; exhibit to the eyes; especially, to show ostentatiously; parade flauntingly. For then the choice and prime women of the City, if the deceased were of note, do a ist their obsequies, with bosoms displaid . Sandys, Travailes, p. 65. IMG:content-2845.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To exhibit to the mind; make manifest or apparent; bring into notice: as, to display one's ignorance or folly. His growth now to youth's full flower, displaying All virtue, grace, and wisdom to achieve Things highest, greatest. Milton , P. R., i. 67. Paint the Reverse of what you've seen to Day, And in bold Strokes the vicious Town display . Congreve, Opening of the Queen's Theatre, Epil, Nothing can be more admirable than the skill which So crates displays in the conversations which Plato has reported or invented. Macaulay , History, It is in the realising of grand character that the strength of historical genius chiefly displays itself. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 98. In fact, we may say that the great ma of purely biological phenomena may be displayed for some time by an organism detached from its medium, as by a fish out of H. Spencer , Prin. of Psychol., § 54. water. 4t. To discover; descry. And from his seat took pleasure to display The city so adorned with towers. Chapman, Iliad, xi. 74. 5. In printing, to make conspicuous or attractive; give special prominence to, as particular words or lines, by the use of larger type, wider space, etc.=Syn. 2. To parade, show off. And bitter Penaunce, with an yron whip, Was wont him once to disple every day. Spenser, F. Q., I. x. 27. disple as an cet (dis-plez'ans), n. [Early mod. E. also disple as a unce ; displeasance , dis pleas a unce , disples ance , OF. disple is ance , desplaisance , F. déplaisance = Pr. desplazensa = Sp. Pg. displicencia = It. dispiacenza , dis piacenzia , spiacenza , displacentia (> Ε. displacency), a restored form of L. displicentia (> E. displicence ), displeasure, di atisfaction, discontent: see displacency, displeasant , dis please , and cf. pleasance .] Displeasure; di atisfaction; discontent; annoyance; vexation. Such greues & many other happyth unto the hunter, whyche for displeasance of theym yt love it I dare not reporte. Jul. Berners, Treatyse of Fy hynge, fol. 1, back. Cordeill said she lov'd him as behoov'd: Whose simple answere, wanting colours fayre To paint it forth, him to disple as a unce moov'd. Spenser, F. Q., II. x. 28. displeasantt (dis-plez'ant), a. [ dis plesant , disples ant , restored form of OF. desplaisant, F. déplaisant , displa cen (t-)s, L. displicen (t-)s, ppr. of displicere , ML. also displacere , displease: see displease . Cf. pleasant .] Unpleasant or unpleasing; showing or giving displeasure. The King's highne e, at his uprise ing and comeing thereunto, may finde the said chamber pure, cleane, whollsome, and meete, without any displeasant aire or thing, as the health, commodity, and pleasure of his most noble person doth require. Quoted in Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 364. If it were God's pleasure to give them into their enemies' hands, it was not they that ought to show one dis pleasant look or countenance there against. Munday (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 202). That no man would invite The poet from us, to sup forth to-night, If the play please. If it displeasant be, We do presume that no man will. B. Jonson, Devil is an A , v. 5. displeasantlyt (dis-plez'ant-li), adv. Unpleas Tangential displacement of a curve, the integral of the tangential components of the displacement of elements of the curve. It makes a difference whether this be reckoned tangentially to the initial or to the final position of the curve; and it depends not merely on the positions of the curve, but also on the corresponding points. displacencyt (dis-plā'sen-si), n. [ dis placentia, restored form of L. displicentia (> E. displicence, displicency ), dislike, di atisfaction, displicen ( t- ) s , ppr. of displicere , ML. also displacere, displease: see displease . Cf. displicence, displicency, displeasance, doublets of displacency.] Dislike; di atisfaction; disple a sure. A displacency at the good of others, because they enjoy it though not unworthy of it, is an absurd depravity. Sir T. Browne, Christ. Mor., i. 12. displacer (dis-plā'sėr), n. 1. One who or that which displaces.-2. In chem ., an apparatus used in the chemical proce of displacement or percolation; a percolator.