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re⋅place⋅ment

[ri-pleys-muh

nt]

–noun

1.	the act of replacing.

2.	a person or thing that replaces another: summer replacements for vacationing staff; a replacement for a broken dish.

3.	Military. a sailor, soldier, or airman assigned to fill a vacancy in a military unit.

4.	Also called metasomatism. Geology. the process of practically simultaneous removal and deposition by which a new mineral grows in the body of an old one.

Origin:
1780–90; replace + -ment

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re·place·ment (rĭ-plās'mənt) Pronunciation Key
n.

The act or process of replacing or of being replaced; substitution.
One that replaces, especially a person assigned to a vacant military position.

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

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law - Cite This Source - Share This
Main Entry: re·place·ment
Function: noun
1 a : the act of replacing : the state of being replaced b : an insurer's option under a policy to replace or repair damaged property rather than pay the insured for the loss
2 : something that replaces; specifically : a new fixed asset or portion of an asset that takes the place of one discarded (as because of deterioration)

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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.