displacement
noun
[ dɪsˈpleɪsm(ə)nt ]
• the action of moving something from its place or position.
• "vertical displacement of the shoreline"
• the occupation by a submerged body or part of a body of a volume which would otherwise be occupied by a fluid.
• the unconscious transfer of an intense emotion from one object to another.
• "this phobia was linked with the displacement of fear of his father"
• the component of an electric field due to free separated charges, regardless of any polarizing effects.