Dis-plāçe'ment, n.
n. [Fr. déplacement.]
Sense 1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; removal; discharge. “Unnecessary displacement of funds.” Hamilton. “The displacement of the sun by parallax.” Whewell.
Sense 2. The quantity of water displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, and whose weight equals that of the displacing body.
Sense 3. (Medical Chem.) A process by which soluble substances are extracted from organic matter. The finely divided or powdered drug is saturated with the liquid used as a solvent until it becomes charged with the active principles; this liquid is then displaced, or expelled, by an additional quantity of the same, or of another liquid.