"slight displacement" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used when discussing the movement or shifting of an object or person, typically in a small or subtle way. Example: The earthquake caused slight displacement of the furniture in the room, but overall there was minimal damage.
TM3 showed a slight displacement.
As an American in London she has a slight displacement that helps her to see how weird we really are.
The result is a slight displacement of the imide hydrogen toward the oxygen atom of the carbonyl group.
An observer on Earth will see an extremely slight displacement in the position of the star when the sun passes near it in the sky.
Now on the other hand, if I put the system like this, which is, in fact, what's referred to as an inverted pendulum, although we could conceivably get this to balance, just a slight displacement because of the fact that the pendulum is inverted, a slight displacement and the output becomes unbounded.
This causes a slight displacement of the internal organs in the abdomen and chest and a rush of blood to the face accompanied by the feeling of congestion.
Relatively slight displacements in the origin of the ureteral bud result in ectopic ureteral orifices and a wide range of congenital anomalies.
The field of view was automatically determined in each image (to account for slight displacements of the field of view with respect to the CCD chip) using a custom routine that uses a combination of a wavelet transform-based edge detection and circle detection algorithms.
These phases are marked by ever-so-slight displacements (shifts) in the arrangement of a material's atomic lattice and directly determine the properties of a material.
This transmission comes with a slight vertical displacement of the supports.
Right-lateral strike-slip faulting and rather slow mountain building occur there today, as much by slight vertical displacement on predominantly strike-slip faults as by slow obliquely oriented folding and thrust faulting and associated crustal shortening.
