0 present participle of displace
1 to force something or someone out of its usual or original position:
Given sufficient processing time, would the postverbal noun be successful in displacing the filler as theme, regardless of its plausibility?
Once the exclusive domain of women, childbirth practices are now dominated by a largely male obstetric workforce, displacing the traditionally female dominated practice of midwifery.
Consider the steady movement of a fluid meniscus displacing air or its own vapour in a circular capillary.
The foreign locus of decisionmaking also creates opportunities for displacing or at least sharing blame when politically unpopular decisions are taken.
It was a trial at which spectators jostled for seats, displacing family members from a privileged row behind the accused woman.
Others were dispersed, pushed southward, displacing yet others in their turn.
This later tableau of cultivated leisure has the calculated effect of displacing the sovereign observer from the scene he surveys.
Coherent and incoherent motion processing displacing the single dots in randomly chosen directions at different speeds.
