Displacement
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place. The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body. 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. Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging. A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
Example sentence: For the Russians, the displacement of the Holocaust is calculated and cynical. It's not emotional; they don't care about the Holocaust one way or another. They only care about it insofar as they can use it to manipulate a German sense of guilt.
Translation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of converting or translating (text from one language to another).The end result of translating text.Translation of forces in a gearbox.Motion of a body on a linear path, without deformation or rotation, i.e. such that every part of the body moves at the same speed and in the same direction.A process occurring in the ribosome, in which a strand of messenger RNA (mRNA) guides assembly of a sequence of amino acids to make a protein.
Example sentence: What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.