What is Displacement?

Answer 1

Distance and displacement are two quantities which may seem to mean the same thing, yet have distinctly different definitions and meanings.


Distance is a scalar quantity which refers to "how much ground an object has covered" during its motion.
Displacement is a vector quantity which refers to "how far out of place an object is"; it is the object's change in position.

Answer 2

Typically, displacement refers to the amount of water a ship displaces, and therefore the weight of the ship.

Answer 3

Displacement can refer to lots of things. For example in vibrational analysis it is the change in position (in some reference frame) that something (like a mass) moves from its original position - a change. It can also refer to, say, a volume of gas as in some engineering type thermodynamic questions. The common thread is that it is the change of extensive property (volume, distance, etc.)

Answer 4

The amount of liquid shoved aside by an object is one meaning. For example. a boat in water is buoyed up be a force equal to the weight of water it displaces.

Answer 5

Look it up in the dictionary. It has about half a dozen meanings depending on whether you're talking about floating things or moving things or things being pushed away.

Answer 6

the shortest distance travelled by a body in a specified direction

Answer 7

the distance from the point of origin or the reference point, with direction taken into consideration

Answer 8

Getting moved out to make room for something else.

Answer 9

when cold air comes into our layer of the atmosphere and the warm air rises
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