displacement

sfollamento, spostamento

Trasferimento di persone o cose dal loro luogo abituale, spesso con la forza.

In inglese semplice: The movement of people or things away from their usual place, often by force.

• The war caused widespread displacement.
• Displacement has separated many families from their neighbours.
• The survey measured the displacement of stones after the earthquake.

Come si usa: displacement of someone/something (The flood caused the displacement of many families.)

Sinonimi: removal, relocation

Espressioni comuni: forced displacement, displacement of people, mass displacement

dislocamento

Volume di liquido spostato da un oggetto quando viene immerso.

In inglese semplice: The amount of liquid pushed aside when an object is put into it.

• We measured the water displacement.
• The ship has a displacement of twenty thousand tonnes.
• Use displacement to find the volume of this stone.

Espressioni comuni: water displacement, liquid displacement, displacement of water

spostamento

Distanza e direzione dalla posizione iniziale di un oggetto a quella finale.

In inglese semplice: The distance and direction from an object's starting position to its ending position.

• The displacement was three metres east.
• Calculate the displacement from the starting point.
• After one complete lap, her displacement was zero.

Espressioni comuni: net displacement, displacement vector, zero displacement