replaceable

replace | American Dictionary

replace
verb[ T ]
us/rɪˈpleɪs/

replaceverb[T] (CHANGE FOR)

to take the place of something or put in the place of something or someone else:
We replaced our old air conditioners.
The ailing actress was replaced by her understudy.

replaceverb[T] (PUT BACK)

to put something back where it was before:
After dusting the vase, she replaced it on the shelf.

replacement

noun[ C/U ]us/rɪˈpleɪs·mənt/
[ U ]The replacement of typewriters by computers happened quickly.

replace | Business English

replace
verb[ T ]
uk /rɪˈpleɪs/us
to take the place of something or someone else:
The single farm payment will replace all subsidy schemes in January.
Four people have left the DA's office and not been replaced.
replace sth with sthThe majority of British people are opposed to replacing the pound sterling with the euro.
replace sb as sthHe'll be replaced as undersecretary by Kate Michael.
to change something that is old, damaged, lost, etc. for something newer or better:
The machines were too expensive to replace.
A lot of technology in this hospital is ancient and needs to be replaced.
The company guarantees to replace a stolen handset within 24 hours.

Examples of replace

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We replaced one of the scheduled formal discussions with two parallel informal discussions in the day room to explore the impact of context.
Science advances by replacing old theories with new ones that make better predictions.
The model should be replaced only if an alternative model is proposed which provides a better summary of the 81 tasks.
We take this as support for our claim that the traditional responseto-stimulus-mapping view should be replaced by an eventrepresentation view.
No further gains were achieved in the last decade of the century, during which the third- and fourth-generation cultivars replaced the original introduced cultivars.
The olives (four per container) were replaced every other day.
A single leaf was placed in each pot containing larvae and this was replaced every second day.
Posts that had become too weak could, if desired, be replaced.
In the course of time, these tools were discarded and replaced by new ones made of local flint varieties.
The problem can be further generalized by replacing the indicator function by a smooth approximation.
However, the following proposition shows that the constant 1/6 in the density assumption cannot be replaced with a smaller constant.
At operation the grossly regurgitant left-sided morphologically tricuspid valve was replaced by a "top-hat" inverted aortic valve homograft.
The patients who have subsequently had their conduit replaced are presented in the right panel.
The condition that f be polynomially bounded can be replaced by a fourth moment condition, as in [5].
The lottery runs over 36 weeks, with one number being drawn and not replaced each week.
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