2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Replacement \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
replacement
n 1: the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the
place of another [syn: {replacing}]
2: someone who takes the place of another person [syn: {surrogate},
{alternate}]
3: an event in which one thing is substituted for another [syn:
{substitution}, {permutation}, {transposition}, {switch}]
4: a person or thing that takes or can take the place of
another [syn: {substitute}]
5: filling again by supplying what has been used up [syn: {refilling},
{replenishment}, {renewal}]
6: a person who follows; "he is President Bush's successor"
[syn: {successor}]
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