Meaning of REPLACEMENT
| Pronunciation: | | ri'pleysmunt
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- [n] the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; "replacing the star will not be easy"
- [n] a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
- [n] an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"
- [n] a person who follows next in order; "he was President Lincoln's successor"
- [n] someone who takes the place of another person
- [n] filling again by supplying what has been used up
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| | Synonyms: | | alternate, permutation, refilling, renewal, replacing, replenishment, substitute, substitution, successor, surrogate, switch, transposition |
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| | See Also: | | backup, backup man, commutation, compeer, displacement, equal, equivalent, exchange, fill-in, filling, fluctuation, match, novation, peer, pitching change, relief, reliever, stand-in, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, successor, supersedure, supersession, supplanting, variation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Re*place"ment\ (-ment), n.
1. The act of replacing.
2. (Crystallog.) The removal of an edge or an angle by one or
more planes.
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