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displacement (dis-plāsīmәnt)   malposition.
  percolation.
  a defense mechanism in which emotions, ideas, wishes, or impulses are unconsciously shifted from their original object to a more acceptable, usually less threatening, substitute.
  in a chemical reaction, the replacement of one atom or group in a molecule by another.




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