different between displacement vs momentum

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

From Latin m?mentum. Doublet of moment and movement

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?(?)?m?nt?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mo??m?nt?m/

Noun

momentum (countable and uncountable, plural momentums or momenta)

1. (physics) Of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity.
2. The impetus, either of a body in motion, or of an idea or course of events; a moment.
   • 1843, Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Old Apple Dealer", in Mosses from an Old Manse

     The travellers swarm forth from the cars. All are full of the momentum which they have caught from their mode of conveyance.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• wind at one's back

Latin

Etymology

From *movimentum (compare later Medieval Latin movimentum), from Proto-Italic *mowementom. Equivalent to move? (“move, set in motion; excite”) + -mentum (“suffix used to forming nouns from verbs”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mo??men.tum/, [mo??m?n?t????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mo?men.tum/, [m??m?n?t?um]

Noun

m?mentum n (genitive m?ment?); second declension

1. movement, motion, impulse; course
2. change, revolution, movement, disturbance
3. particle, part, point
4. (of time) brief space, moment, short time
5. cause, circumstance; weight, influence, moment
6. importance
7. (New Latin, physics) momentum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• momentum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• momentum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• momentum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• momentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.