Question

Define displacement of a 'moving' body

Answer 1

The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.

Answer 2

Answer:

In geometry and mechanics, a displacement is a vector whose length is the shortest distance from the initial to the final position of a point P undergoing motion.

distance moved by a particle or body in a specific direction. In the figure, A is the initial position of a point, B is the final position, and the straight line directed from A to B is the displacement.