different between displacement vs proportioner

English

Etymology

From French déplacement.

Morphologically displace +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s?ple?sm?nt/, /d?z?ple?sm?nt/
• Rhymes: -e?sm?nt

Noun

displacement (plural displacements)

1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
   • 1793, Alexander Hamilton, Loans […]

     Unnecessary displacement of funds.

   • 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences

     The displacement of the sun by parallax.

2. The quantity of a liquid displaced by a floating body, as water by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.
3. (chemistry) 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.
4. (fencing) Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
5. (physics) A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
6. (grammar) The capability of a communication system to refer to things that are not present (that existed or will exist at another time, or that exist at another location).

Translations

See also

• Displacement (linguistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

proportion +? -er

Noun

proportioner (plural proportioners)

1. A basic pumping unit consisting of two positive displacement pumps designed to dispense two components at a precisely controlled ratio.

Anagrams

• reproportion

Swedish

Noun

proportioner

1. indefinite plural of proportion