Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which displaces.
- noun In chem., an apparatus used in the chemical process of displacement or percolation; a percolator.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One that displaces.
- noun (Chem.) The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
displaces . - noun chemistry The
funnel part of theapparatus forsolution bydisplacement .
Etymologies
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Examples
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a mass, called a "displacer," from the cold to the hot end of a large vessel which was heated by a fire beneath and cooled by a current of water above.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 Various
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Okay, so who has the time displacer that will halt my aging long enough to read/watch all these gems?
MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 4) 2009
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The boy went outside and took to using a displacer wand to move the dirt from the hole without ever touching it.
365 tomorrows » B. York : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Around 1872, Ericsson built a displacer type (or Stirling) engine powered by a solar parabolic reflector, and a related thermodynamic cycle is named for him.
Ericsson, John 2009
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The boy went outside and took to using a displacer wand to move the dirt from the hole without ever touching it.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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Do bring along some kind of distraction — a harmless stress displacer — to prevent you from obsessing over the details of the wedding itself.
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Do bring along some kind of distraction — a harmless stress displacer — to prevent you from obsessing over the details of the wedding itself.
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And you're only getting power from the air that's heating at the same time, but you're wasting all the energy heating the metal and cooling the metal So someone came up with a very clever idea, to -- instead of heating the whole cylinder and cooling the whole cylinder, what about if you put a displacer inside -- a little thing that shuttles the air back and forth.
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And you're only getting power from the air that's heating at the same time, but you're wasting all the energy heating the metal and cooling the metal So someone came up with a very clever idea, to -- instead of heating the whole cylinder and cooling the whole cylinder, what about if you put a displacer inside -- a little thing that shuttles the air back and forth.
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And you're only getting power from the air that's heating at the same time, but you're wasting all the energy heating the metal and cooling the metal So someone came up with a very clever idea, to -- instead of heating the whole cylinder and cooling the whole cylinder, what about if you put a displacer inside -- a little thing that shuttles the air back and forth.
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