replacement : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: replacement	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for replacement
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
replacement n the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; "replacing the star will not be easy" Synonym(s): replacement, replacing someone who takes the place of another person Synonym(s): surrogate, alternate, replacement an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood" Synonym(s): substitution, permutation, transposition, replacement, switch a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another Synonym(s): substitute, replacement filling again by supplying what has been used up Synonym(s): refilling, replenishment, replacement, renewal a person who follows next in order; "he was President Lincoln's successor" Synonym(s): successor, replacement
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.