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Definition of Displacements
1. displacement [n] - See also: displacement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Displacements
Literary usage of Displacements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The California earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the state earthquake by Andrew Cowper Lawson, Harry Fielding Reid (1910)
"114-145), show that in the intervals between the surveys certain definite
displacements of the land took place. They bring out especially well the ..."
2. The Principles and Practice of Gynecology: For Students and Practitioners by Emilius Clark Dudley (1908)
"The downward displacements thereby produced are called cystocele and rectocele.
The vaginal walls are attached to the uterus, and, being displaced downward, ..."
3. A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity by Augustus Edward Hough Love (1892)
"If the points of the plane be made to execute given displacements, ... The problem
of determining the displacements produced was first attempted by Larne ..."
4. The Elementary Principles of Mechanics by Augustus Jay Du Bois (1894)
"Hence if a rigid system with one point fixed undergo any number of successive
indefinitely small angular displacements about different axes either fixed in ..."
5. Theoretical Kinematics by Oene Bottema, Bernard Roth (1990)
"CHAPTER I. displacements EUCLIDEAN displacements A transformation T(P—» P') of
Euclidean ... Thus parallelism of lines is maintained by displacements. ..."
6. Structural Geology by Charles Kenneth Leith (1913)
"APPARENT AND REAL FAULT displacements Fault displacements shown in a two ...
Arrows, commonly used to indicate displacements upon cross sections, ..."
7. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1918)
"The set of aIl displacements form a self•conjugate ... That the displacements
form a group is evident because (cf. § 26, Vol. ..."
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