replacement

[Re*placeĀ·ment]

A replacement is the thing that fills in for something that's missing, or the act of substituting for the missing thing. The replacement for your absent teacher is an annoying substitute. Sigh.

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The act of replacing.

Noun
the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; "replacing the star will not be easy"

Noun
a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another

Noun
an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"

Noun
a person who follows next in order; "he was President Lincoln''s successor"

Noun
someone who takes the place of another person

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Noun
filling again by supplying what has been used up


n.
The act of replacing.

n.
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes.


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.

The act of replacing.

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Usage Examples

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.

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Other Usage Examples

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

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