Replacement

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Replacement \Re*place"ment\ (-ment), n.
     1. The act of replacing.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Crystallog.) The removal of an edge or an angle by one or
        more planes.


        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  replacement
       n 1: an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the
            replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor
            blood" [syn: {substitution}, {permutation}, {transposition},
             {switch}]
       2: the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the
          place of another; "replacing the star will not be easy"
          [syn: {replacing}]
       3: someone who takes the place of another person [syn: {surrogate},
           {alternate}]
       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 next in order; "he was President
          Lincoln's successor" [syn: {successor}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  102 Moby Thesaurus words for "replacement":
     agency, agent, alternate, alternative, analogy, backup, backup man,
     change, changeling, commutation, comparison, copy, counterfeit,
     delegation, deputation, deputy, deputyship, descendant,
     displacement, double, dummy, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange,
     fake, fill-in, ghost, ghostwriter, heir, imitation, improvement,
     inheritor, instauration, locum, locum tenens, makeshift, metaphor,
     metonymy, next best thing, personnel, phony, pinch hitter,
     posterity, power of attorney, proxy, quid pro quo, reactivation,
     reconstitution, reconversion, redintegration, reenactment,
     reestablishment, reformation, rehabilitation, reinstatement,
     reinstation, reinstitution, reinvestiture, reinvestment, relief,
     representation, representative, reserves, restitution, restoration,
     reversion, ringer, second string, secondary, sign, spares,
     stand-in, sub, subrogation, substituent, substitute, substitution,
     succedaneum, successor, supersedence, superseder, superseding,
     supersedure, supersession, supplantation, supplanter, supplanting,
     supplantment, surrogate, switch, symbol, synecdoche, third string,
     tit for tat, token, understudy, utility player, vicar,
     vicariousness, vice-president, vice-regent