Interchangeable meaning

ĭn'tər-chān'jə-bəl
The definition of interchangeable is able to be used in place of one another.

An example of interchangeable are the words dinner and supper.

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Capable of being interchanged.

Interchangeable items of clothing; interchangeable automotive parts.

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That can be interchanged; esp., that can be put or used in place of each other.
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Freely substitutable. May be swapped at will.

Eli Whitney's development of interchangeable parts was a breakthrough for modern manufacturing. Prior to that each part had to be made custom.

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Sentence Examples

  • But it is possible that the terms at an early date were interchangeable, Canaan being geographical and Amorite ethnical.

  • This cipher alphabet is called Albam, from the first interchangeable pairs.

  • In the level the eye-piece and object-glass are interchangeable, to facilitate adjustment for collimation.

  • If an element be present in a compound otherwise than as an ion, it is not interchangeable, and cannot be recognized by the usual tests.

  • Nor are the terms interchangeable now; for not all metropolitans are archbishops,' nor all archbishops metropolitans.

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