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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In experimental psychology, the acceleration or retardation of the perception of one of two or more objectively simultaneous stimuli, due to a preferential direction of the attention; the positive or negative displacement of the complication experiment.
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Examples
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As I mentioned last week, the location used for Survivor: Tocantins is surrounded by a LOST Island-style, time-displacement ring.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Tocantins: Tooth or Consequences. 2009
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This look depicts Ash in the wake of his return from time-displacement in the year 1300 AD; the S-Mart Ash has only recently told his coworkers the tale of how he delivered Lord Arthur and his followers from the Deadites, and despite the fact that Ash stills sports a mechanical medieval gauntlet, no one really believes him.
Army of Darkness – Ash S-Mart 7″ Figure | BuyZombie.com 2007
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Warren Traveller clones himself using time-displacement spell.
Snark Free Corner for 1/28 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Nobody is sure about anything except that it will no longer respond to questions, and that the nature of those time-displacement waves it gives off has altered.
Time for Yesterday A. C. Crispin 1990
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The Enterprise had discovered the Guardian years ago, by tracing the “ripples” of time-displacement the entity gave off.
Time for Yesterday A. C. Crispin 1990
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They denied having made the two attacks on Terra and the Arkonide Imperium although we could prove that the plasma monster as well as the time-displacement on Arkon 3 could be traced to their Energy Command's operations.
Blue System Scheer, Karl 1976
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For a moment he pondered, wondering if he had been caught up in tangle of time-displacement.
The Blind Spot Austin Hall 1908
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As I mentioned last week, the location used for Survivor: Tocantins is surrounded by a LOST Island-style, time-displacement ring.
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Spock did not trust himself to look back as he strode forward, feeling the Guardian’s time-displacement seize him.
Time for Yesterday A. C. Crispin 1990
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