Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Susceptible of being displaced or removed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being displaced.
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- adjective Capable of being
displaced .
Etymologies
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Examples
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(OH) groups, the hydrogen atoms of which are displaceable by acid radicles, the above reaction may be supposed to take place in three stages.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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Thus if a nerve lay in a fixed bed some form of circular constriction resulted; if, on the other hand, the nerve was readily displaceable, the cicatrix often drew it considerably out of its course; in either case symptoms corresponding with those of pressure resulted.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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Sometimes a good keyword will produce a lot of results, but the competition itself is easily displaceable.
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Passing by his speculations on the displacement of the poles of the earth, and on the elevations of the equatorial regions, which will dispense with the necessity of considering the earth as originally in a liquid condition, he allows that "the terrestrial globe is not at all a body entirely and truly solid, but that it is a combination (_réunion_) of bodies more or less solid, displaceable in their mass or in their separate parts, and among which there is a great number which undergo continual changes in condition."
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