n. A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
n. The act of replacing something.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The act of replacing.
n. The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The act of replacing.
n. In crystallography, the removal of an edge or angle by one plane or more.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
n. an event in which one thing is substituted for another
n. a person who follows next in order
n. filling again by supplying what has been used up
n. a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
n. someone who takes the place of another person
n. the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another
Word Usage
"To accommodate multi-widgets (e.g. Text and RSS) you can also pass a replacement value with the name: array ($name_as_sprintf_pattern, $textdomain, $replacement)."