- (n.) The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.
- (n.) The act of displacing or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
- (n.) The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced or removed, for another quantity of the solvent.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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