displacement

  • 131displacement hull — Naut. a hull that displaces a significant volume of water when under way. Cf. planing hull. * * * …

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  • 132displacement law — ▪ physics       in physics, any of the statements (originally formulated in 1913) that radioactive decay (radioactivity) produces daughter atoms whose position in the periodic table of the chemical elements is shifted from that of their parents:… …

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