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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

... decomposition organisms.' As raw organic materials are eaten and re-eaten by many, many tiny organisms from bacteria (the smallest) to earthworms (the largest), their components are gradually altered and recombined. Gardeners often use the terms organic matter, compost, and humus as interchangeable identities. But there are important differences in meaning that need to be ...

— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon

... and bring into being a Republic like the United States. Woman is to implant the faith, man is to cause the Nation's faith to show itself in works. More and more these duties overlap, but they cannot become interchangeable while sex continues to divide the race into the two halves of what should become a perfect whole. Woman Suffrage aims to sweep away this natural distinction, and make humanity a mass of individuals with an indiscriminate sphere. The attack is ...

— Woman and the Republic • Helen Kendrick Johnson

... no revolution of his nature to learn to calculate the range and fire a field gun or to march the goose-step. It was a mere matter of training. Our material achievement is the product of our intellect. It is knowledge, and knowledge, like coin, is interchangeable. It is not wrapped up in the heredity of the new-born child, but is something to be acquired afterward. Not so with our soul stuff, which is the product of an evolution which goes back to the raw beginnings of the race. Our soul stuff ...

— Revolution and Other Essays • Jack London

... to the point of smashing the kernels. If the nuts have a long point so that the rims of the anvils do not contact the shoulders of the nut, poor cracking will result. At the present time a cracker with interchangeable anvils is not available. Using different sized iron pipe couplings in a vise may help solve the problem. Some varieties will crack better with a hammer than with a cracker of the Hershey type with standard anvils. In cracking a sample for test the operator should try to recover ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 • Various

... reasoning—nothing definite save only an occult and overwhelming restlessness.... Marya may take the veil ... or nurse lepers ... or she may become a famous courtesan.... I do not mean it cruelly. But, in the mystic, the spiritual, the intellectual and the physical seem to be interchangeable, and become gradually indistinguishable." ...

— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers

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