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replacement

 

  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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