Phrase Hound found 16 phrases and 8 compound words that contain displacement. The most common are listed below. Open displacement in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 16
- engine displacementThe total volume of air/fuel mixture an engine can draw in during one complete engine cycle.
- displacement currentThe direction and rate of change of the electric displacement field at a given point of space and time. It can be expressed as a vector.
- displacement activityAimless, often self-comforting behavior displayed when in doubt, blocked or frustrated.
- displacement mappingA method for adding detail to surfaces by subdivision and displacement of the resulting vertices from a heightmap.
- displacement speedhull speed
- displacement tonA unit approximately equal to the volume of a long ton weight of seawater, used in reckoning the displacement of ships, and equal to 35 U.S. or Imperial cubic feet.
- displacement currentsplural of displacement current: The direction and rate of change of the electric displacement field at a given point of space and time. It can be expressed as a vector.
- centre of displacementSynonym of centre of buoyancy: The point through which the resultant of all buoyant forces on an immersed hull are assumed to act; the centre of mass of the displaced water.
- centres of displacementplural of centre of displacement: The point through which the resultant of all buoyant forces on an immersed hull are assumed to act; the centre of mass of the displaced water.
- Wien's displacement lawA law stating that the blackbody radiation curve for different temperatures will peak at different wavelengths that are inversely proportional to the temperature.
- positive displacement pumpA pump which operates by periodically changing the volume of a cavity
- displacement activitiesplural of displacement activity: Aimless, often self-comforting behavior displayed when in doubt, blocked or frustrated.
- displacement speedsplural of displacement speed: hull speed
- displacement tonsplural of displacement ton: A unit approximately equal to the volume of a long ton weight of seawater, used in reckoning the displacement of ships, and equal to 35 U.S. or Imperial cubic feet.
- there is no replacement for displacementA bigger engine is better.
- positive displacement pumpsplural of positive displacement pump: A pump which operates by periodically changing the volume of a cavity
Compound words 8
- absementA measure of sustained displacement of an object from its initial position; the time-integral of displacement.
- microdisplacementA microscopic displacement
- nondisplacementAbsence of displacement; failure to displace something or somebody.
- postdisplacementAfter displacement.
- predisplacementPrior to displacement.
- redisplacementThe act of displacing again.
- retrodisplacementAny backward displacement, such as retroversion or retroflexion of the uterus.
- isodisplacementA condition where a specific quantity related to displacement remains constant.