Displacement meaning : The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place. 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. 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. Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging. A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component. (grammar) The capability of a communication system to refer to things that are not present (that existed or will exist at another time, or that exist at another location).