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Definition of displacement : 1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
2. 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.
3. The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.

Synonyms:

rendering, teddy, faulting, disturbance, geological fault, shimmy, duty period, transmutation, fault, rearrangement, break, shifting, excision, extirpation, move, displacement reaction, sack, movement, switching, work shift, shift key, deracination, slip, chemise, interlingual rendition, fracture, shift, supplanting, version, transformation, translation

dislocation, deportation, immigration

subrogation, alternative, swap, substitution, supersession, switch, exchange, replacement, trade

Usage examples:

• In fractures by indirect violence the soft parts do not suffer by the violence causing the fracture, but they may be injured by displacement of the fragments. - "Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition.", Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson.
• All of these battleships have a displacement of more than 31, 000 tons, and have the most complete equipment that it is possible to command. - "Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights", Kelly Miller.
• 3. Upon naval vessels, other than transports, colliers, hospital ships, and supply ships, 50 cents per displacement ton. - "Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present", Various.