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adjective
Replaceable  adj.  
1.
Capable or admitting of being put back into a place.
2.
Admitting of having its place supplied by a like thing or an equivalent; as, the lost book is replaceable.
3.
(Chem.) Capable of being replaced (by), or of being exchanged (for); as, the hydrogen of acids is replaceable by metals or by basic radicals.





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"Replaceable" Quotes from Famous Books



... consequence, a great number of tenants were left without productive work, money or credit. A host of idle persons thrown suddenly on the labor market could have no other effect than to create an excess in the cities to which they flocked, make laborers easily replaceable, and consequently reduce wages. A southern paper in commenting on this situation declared "there is nothing for this excess population to do. These people must live on the workers, making the workers poorer ... if there is ...
— Negro Migration during the War • Emmett J. Scott
... have been largely responsible for the gas engine. To carry coal for fuel and water for steam would be impracticable for most motor cars. Electricity is used in some cars, but the batteries are heavy, expensive, and short-lived, and are not always easily replaceable. For this reason gasoline is extensively used, and in the average automobile the source of power is the force generated by ...
— General Science • Bertha M. Clark
... regulated by human design," and this design, or evidence of active intellect in choice and arrangement, is the essential part of the work; which so long as you cannot perceive, you perceive no art whatsoever; which when once you do perceive, you will perceive also to be replaceable by no mechanism. But, farther, photographs will give you nothing you do not work for. They are invaluable for record of some kinds of facts, and for giving transcripts of drawings by great masters; but neither in the photographed ...
— Lectures on Art - Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 • John Ruskin
... defined limits, except to the central government, which would not reissue it as it came in. It was, in fact, to become a temporary token coinage, a token coinage of full value for the day of conversion at any rate, if not afterwards, under the new standard of energy, and to be replaceable by an ordinary token coinage as time went on. The old computation by Lions and the values of the small change of daily life were therefore ...
— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells


Words linked to "Replaceable" :   interchangeable, expendable, standardized, standardised, exchangeable, irreplaceable, replaceability


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