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  2. Displacement (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    Displacement is the shift in location when an object in motion changes from one position to another. [2] For motion over a given interval of time, the displacement divided by the length of the time interval defines the average velocity (a vector), whose magnitude is the average speed (a scalar quantity).

  3. Displacement - Wikipedia

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    Displacement (linguistics), the ability of humans (and possibly some animals) to communicate ideas that are remote in time and/or space; Forced displacement, by persecution or violence; Displacement (psychology), a sub-conscious defense mechanism; Displacement (parapsychology), a statistical or qualitative correspondence between targets and ...

  4. Motion - Wikipedia

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    Mathematically Force is directly proportional to the negative of displacement. Negative sign signifies the restoring nature of the force. (e.g., that of a pendulum). Linear motion – motion that follows a straight linear path, and whose displacement is exactly the same as its trajectory. [Also known as rectilinear motion] Reciprocal motion

  5. Circular motion - Wikipedia

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    The velocity is the time derivative of the displacement: = = ^ + ^. Because the radius of the circle is constant, the radial component of the velocity is zero. The unit vector u ^ R ( t ) {\displaystyle {\hat {\mathbf {u} }}_{R}(t)} has a time-invariant magnitude of unity, so as time varies its tip always lies on a circle of unit radius, with ...

  6. Displacement (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In addition, displacement in the waggle dance is restricted by the language's lack of creativity and productivity. The bees can express direction and distance, but it has been experimentally determined that they lack a sign for "above". It is also doubtful that bees can communicate about non-existent nectar for the purpose of deception. [3]

  7. Position (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    In other words, it is the displacement or translation that maps the origin to P: [1] r = O P → . {\displaystyle \mathbf {r} ={\overrightarrow {OP}}.} The term position vector is used mostly in the fields of differential geometry , mechanics and occasionally vector calculus .

  8. Displacement field (mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    A displacement field is a vector field of all displacement vectors for all particles in the body, which relates the deformed configuration with the undeformed configuration. The distance between any two particles changes if and only if deformation has occurred. If displacement occurs without deformation, then it is a rigid-body displacement.

  9. Linear motion - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] If is the initial position of an object and is the final position, then mathematically the displacement is given by: = The equivalent of displacement in rotational motion is the angular displacement measured in radians. The displacement of an object cannot be greater than the distance because it is also a distance but the shortest one.