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replacement

noun
/ɹɪˈpleɪsmənt/

Etymology

From replace + -ment.

  1. derived from *pleth₂-✻ — “to spread”
  2. derived from πλατεῖα
  3. derived from platēa — “plaza, wide street”
  4. derived from place — “place, an open space”
  5. inherited from plæċe — “place, an open space, street”
  6. inherited from place
  7. prefixed as replace — “re + place”
  8. suffixed as replacement — “replace + ment”

Definitions

  1. A person or thing that takes the place of another

    A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.

    • Rovers lost keeper Robinson to a calf problem at half-time and his replacement Mark Bunn, making his Premier League debut, was immediately called into action - pushing away a vicious Peter Odemwingie drive at the near post.

  2. The act of replacing something.

    • The replacement of that broken light-bulb will have to wait until I can buy a new one.

  3. The removal of an edge of crystal, by one plane or more.

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Derived

blood replacement, bus replacement service, double-replacement reaction, double replacement reaction, energy replacement time, Great Replacement, great replacement theory, hip replacement, hormone replacement therapy, hormone-replacement therapy, language replacement, neuroreplacement, nonreplacement, overreplacement, rail replacement service, replacement character, replacement depot, replacement theology, replacement theory, subreplacement, there is no replacement for displacement, underreplacement, value over replacement player, white replacement theory

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at replacement. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at replacement. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at replacement

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA