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'Displacement' is the manner in which the weight of a ship is determined. When a ship is completed in the ship yard, it can be taken into dry dock and a known amount of water pumped in. When the ship floats, the weight of the water is the same as that of the ship. Given that the volume and weight of the water is known then the weight of the ship is equal to the amount of water it displaces. Greek legend tells us that Archimedes discovered this natural phenomenon when lowering himself into his bathtub the water level rose as he lay down and he famously cried 'Eureka' [Greek for I have it] By which he meant he had discovered that a body immersed in water until it floats is equal in weight to the amount of water it displaces
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