Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun displacement_reaction

1 sense of displacement reaction

Sense 1
displacement, displacement reaction -- ((chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound)
       => chemical reaction, reaction -- ((chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others; "there was a chemical reaction of the lime with the ground water")