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/ˌɪntərtʃˈeɪndʒəbəl/ /ˌɪnərtʃˈeɪndʒəbəl/ Listen

Interchangeable

adjective

(mathematics, logic) such that the arguments or roles can be interchanged.

Capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability. Synonyms: exchangeable, similar, standardised, standardized. "Interchangeable parts"

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"Interchangeable" Quotes from Famous Books

... are far from being invariable. To each separate form of art, a different standard is applicable. In what may roughly be called realistic art, the terms plausible and probable are very nearly interchangeable. Where the dramatist appeals to the sanction of our own experience and knowledge, he must not introduce matter against which our experience and knowledge cry out. A very small inaccuracy in a picture which is otherwise photographic will ...

— Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship • William Archer

... as clear, almost, as speech in my native tongue. And at times she did use certain sound-words; it was in this way that I learned, by inference, that her name was Imee, that her people were called Teemorn (this may have been the name of the community, or perhaps it was interchangeable—I am not sure) and that the ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 • Various

... summers chiefly through the chinks of a clothes-box, and was not at all shabby as yet, though getting singular. But that could not be helped; common coats and best coats were distinct species, and never interchangeable. Living so near the scene of the review he walked up the hill, accompanied by Mrs. Garland and ...

— The Trumpet-Major • Thomas Hardy

... United States for Europe are on the breech-loading system. The invention of what is called the principle of "assembling," which consists in making the various parts of a machine "in distinct pieces of fixed shape and dimensions, so that the corresponding parts are interchangeable," has brought about a revolution in the manufacture of other articles besides fire-arms. It is applied also to watches, sewing-machines, knitting-machines, and even to agricultural implements and ...

— The Nation in a Nutshell • George Makepeace Towle

... truth, and one of its fundamental principles is the Unity of Energy—the theory that all forms of Energy are, at the last, One. Science holds that all forms of Energy are interchangeable, and from this idea comes the theory of the Conservation of Energy or ...

— A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga • Yogi Ramacharaka

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