displacement

noun

1. 1.The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
2. 2.The quantity of a liquid displaced by a floating body, as water by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.
3. 3.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.
4. 4.Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
5. 5.A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.