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/ˌɪntərtʃˈeɪndʒəbəl/ /ˌɪnərtʃˈeɪndʒəbəl/ Listen

Interchangeable

adjective

(mathematics, logic) such that the arguments or roles can be interchanged.

Capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability. Synonyms: exchangeable, similar, standardised, standardized. "Interchangeable parts"

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... on personage and parsonage, which were formerly interchangeable terms, as both had ...

— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX • Various

... sector I was on is really quite advanced, for an electro-chemical civilization. That weapon I brought back with me—that solid-missile projector—is typical of most Fourth Level culture. Moving parts machined to the closest tolerances, and interchangeable with similar parts of all similar weapons. The missile is a small bolt of cupro-alloy coated lead, propelled by expanding gases from the ignition of some nitro-cellulose compound. Most of their scientific ...

— Police Operation • H. Beam Piper

... the beginning of the world unto this day, had there not been some through passage by the strait aforesaid, and so by circular motion be brought again to maintain itself, for the tides and courses of the sea are maintained by their interchangeable motions, as fresh rivers are by springs, by ebbing and ...

— Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage • Richard Hakluyt

... in pages 133 to 246 are grouped as illustrations of the types suitable for different stages. They are, however, very often interchangeable; and many stories can be told successfully to all classes. A vitally good story is little limited in its appeal. It is, nevertheless, a help to have certain plain results of experience as a basis for choice; that which is given ...

— How to Tell Stories to Children - And Some Stories to Tell • Sara Cone Bryant

... Edge on a summer afternoon and look across the Marches to the mountains of Wales. The peculiar flavor of the scenery has something to do with absence of evolution; it was better marked in Egypt: it was felt wherever time-sequences became interchangeable. One's instinct abhors time. As one lay on the slope of the Edge, looking sleepily through the summer haze towards Shrewsbury or Cader Idris or Caer Caradoc or Uriconium, nothing suggested sequence. The Roman road was twin to the railroad; Uriconium was well worth Shrewsbury; ...

— The Education of Henry Adams • Henry Adams

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