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Webster 1913 Edition

Replacement

Re-place′ment

(-ment)

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Noun.

1.

The act of replacing.

2.

(Crystallog.)

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

Webster 1828 Edition

Replacement

REPLA'CEMENT

,

Noun.

The act of replacing.

Definition 2024

replacement

replacement

English

Noun

replacement ‎(plural replacements)

A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
- 2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC:
  Rovers lost keeper Robinson to a calf problem at half-time and his replacement Mark Bunn, making his Premier League debut, was immediately called into action - pushing away a vicious Peter Odemwingie drive at the near post.
The act of replacing something.

Synonyms

See also Wikisaurus:substitute

Derived terms

See also

spare part

Translations

a person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute

Catalan: substitut (ca) m
Czech: náhrada (cs) f
Dutch: vervanger (nl) m, plaatsvervanger (nl) m, vervanging (nl) f
Esperanto: anstataŭaĵo
Finnish: (person) sijainen (fi); (of things, never people) korvike (fi), varaosa (fi)
French: remplaçant (fr) m, substitut (fr)
German: Ersatz (de) m, Ersatzspieler (de) m
Greek: αντικαταστάτης (el) m ‎(antikatastátis) (person), υποκατάστατο (el) n ‎(ypokatástato) (thing)
Indonesian: pengganti (id)

Italian: sostituto (it), rimpiazzo (it)
Maori: kaitiriwā
Polish: zastępca (pl) m (person), zamiennik (pl) m (object)
Portuguese: substituto (pt) m
Russian: заме́на (ru) ‎(zaména), замеще́ние (ru) ‎(zameščénije)
Serbo-Croatian: nadomjestak (sh), supstitut (sh), zamjena (sh)
Spanish: substituto m, sustituto (es), reemplazo (es), suplente m, f (person)
Swedish: substitut (sv)
Tagalog: palitambal

act of replacing

German: Ersatz (de) m
Greek: αντικατάσταση (el) f ‎(antikatástasi), υποκατάσταση (el) f ‎(ypokatástasi), αλλαγή (el) f ‎(allagí) (sports)

Portuguese: substituição (pt) f, reposição f
Spanish: reemplazo (es) m

External links

replacement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia