Word Meanings - DISPLANTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.

DISPLANTATION
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
DISPLANT
Etym: 1. To remove ; to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants. I did not think a look, Or a poor word or two, could have displanted Such a fixed constancy. Beau. & Fl. 2. To strip of what is planted
DISPLACEMENT
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. Piston displacement , the volume of the space swept through,
REMOVAL
The act of removing, or the state of being removed.
PHASE DISPLACEMENT
A charge of phase whereby an alternating current attains its maximum later or earlier. An inductance would cause a lag, a capacity would cause an advance, in phase.
IRREMOVAL
Absence of removal.