In dictionaries:
Angular displacement
Change in position of angle.
displacement current
Current linking changing electric fields.
radial displacement
electric displacement
Electric field response to polarization.
virtual displacement
In analytical mechanics, a branch of applied mathematics and physics, a virtual displacement (or infinitesimal variation) shows how the mechanical system's trajectory can hypothetically (hence the term virtual) deviate very slightly from the actual trajectory of the system without violating the system's constraints.
displacement pumps
displacement pump
Moves fluid by mechanical displacement.
character displacement
the phenomenon where differences among similar species whose distributions overlap geographically are accentuated in regions where the species co-occur, but are minimized or lost where the species' distributions do not overlap.
piston displacement
Volume displaced by piston movement.
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