displacement tonnage

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noun Nautical.

the number of long tons of water displaced by a vessel, light or load displacement being specified.

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How to use displacement tonnage in a sentence

This spatial displacement reveals your thirst for freedom, your desire for openness and to break with the protest novel.
Living Black & Gay in the ’50s|Alain Mabanckou|December 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For those who escape direct physical injury, there remain the ill effects of displacement and deprivation.
Palestinian Kids’ PTSD Could Last Generations|Russell Saunders|August 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A tense, dynamic equilibrium between the U.S. and China seems more likely than a clear displacement of the former by the latter.
Why China Won’t Eclipse the United States|Ali Wyne|June 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The daily killing and displacement of civilians have not led to an international agreement to stop the conflict.
After 3 Years of Brutal War Syria is Still Burning, but the World’s Attention Seems to Have Moved On.|Abdulhamid Qabbani|March 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST

It was a key reason why the half million U.S. soldiers and massive bomb tonnage could not achieve decisive military victory.
Going Back to Vietnam Is Sometimes Amusing, Often Fraught, and Always Surreal|Jeff Greenfield|March 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The tonnage entered in Philippine ports shows a rapid annual increase in five years.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
Old and new measurements, tonnage, time allowances and movable ballast, are all a sealed book to me.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3)|Charles James Wills
These vessels, indeed, were of no considerable tonnage; but I confess myself at a loss to guess their object.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808|Lt-Col. Pinkney
This secular displacement of the line of the apsides brings a sixth complication to the motion of our abiding-place.
Urania|Camille Flammarion
This was owing to there still being a tonnage class, A, B and C, the new rating and the length classes.
Yachting Vol. 2|Various.