displacement

noun

1. 1

   act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics

2. 2

   act of removing from office or employment

3. 3

   to move something from its natural environment

4. 4

   the act of uniform movement

5. 5

   an event in which something is displaced without rotation

6. 6

   (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one

7. 7

   (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound