What (if anything) is the difference between the displacement of a ship and the weight of a ship? If they are the same why are there two different terms?

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What (if anything) is the difference between the displacement of a ship and the weight of a ship? If they are the same why are there two different terms?

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Weight is weight. Displacement is taking a bath tub and filling it to the very edge. Then getting in. The water that spills out is what you displaced. That weight of water is your displacement.

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