displacement vs translation

translation vs displacement

displacement and translation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
displacement	Yes	No	No	No
translation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, displacement and translation are synonyms defined as:

displacement and translation: the act of uniform movement

As nouns, translation is a hypernym of displacement; that is, translation is a word with a broader meaning than displacement:

displacement: an event in which something is displaced without rotation
translation: a uniform movement without rotation

displacement (noun)	translation (noun)
act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics	the act of uniform movement
act of removing from office or employment	the act of changing in form or shape or appearance
the act of uniform movement	a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
to move something from its natural environment	rewording something in less technical terminology
an event in which something is displaced without rotation	a uniform movement without rotation
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one	(genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm
(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound	(mathematics) a transformation in which the origin of the coordinate system is moved to another position but the direction of each axis remains the same

Difference between displacement and translation

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