Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act or process of replacing or of being replaced; substitution.
  • noun One that replaces, especially a person assigned to a vacant military position.
  • noun Statistics The act of returning each item that has been selected in a subset from a group before making another selection.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of replacing.
  • noun In crystallography, the removal of an edge or angle by one plane or more.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of replacing.
  • noun (Crystallog.) The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
  • noun The act of replacing something.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an event in which one thing is substituted for another
  • noun a person who follows next in order
  • noun filling again by supplying what has been used up
  • noun a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
  • noun someone who takes the place of another person
  • noun the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

replace +‎ -ment

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Examples

  • To accommodate multi-widgets (e.g. Text and RSS) you can also pass a replacement value with the name: array ($name_as_sprintf_pattern, $textdomain, $replacement).

    Codex - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • The "e" modifier makes preg_replace () treat the $replacement parameter as PHP code after the appropriate references substitution is done. replacement: The string or an array with strings to replace.

    Muti 2009

  • To accommodate multi-widgets (e.g. Text and RSS) you can also pass a replacement value with the name: array ($name_as_sprintf_pattern, $textdomain, $replacement).

    Codex - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • The acknowledgment that it isn't bad, and the use of the word replacement here are very important.

    Forbes.com: News Frances Cole Jones 2011

  • The acknowledgment that it isn't bad, and the use of the word replacement here are very important.

    Forbes.com: News Frances Cole Jones 2011

  • Don't assume that this replacement is the most cost-effective choice for you, say experts.

    Medicare beneficiaries can decide in November about prescription drug coverage Michelle Andrews 2010

  • From the Miami Herald: TALLAHASSEE -- Sen. Mel Martinez told friends and supporters Friday in an e-mail that he'll step down from the Senate as soon as a replacement is appointed to fill out his term.

    Sen. Martinez to Resign 2009

  • And this replacement is also the husband of Anita Dunn who just resigned as the communications director.

    Top White House lawyer resigns 2009

  • Don't assume that this replacement is the most cost-effective choice for you, say experts.

    Medicare beneficiaries can decide in November about prescription drug coverage Michelle Andrews 2010

  • Of course, the productions this year are sharing room with news about many transitions - the news of music director Alan Gilbert's departure and the appointment of his most excellent and esteemed replacement Edo de Waart, and now the news that general director Richard Gaddes, the companies 2nd general director in 50 years will retire as soon as his replacement is appointed.

    Swamp Thing 2007

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