replacing

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"It's not really the problem that there aren't very many people working on replacing jet engines.

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the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; "replacing the star will not be easy"

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noun

the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; "replacing the star will not be easy"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for replacing.

noun

the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; "replacing the star will not be easy"

Example sentences

"It's not really the problem that there aren't very many people working on replacing jet engines.

The global musical monoculture is ending and a diverse, global party is replacing it.

Then as time passes the manufacturer slowly strips those touches out, replacing them with cheaper alternatives or just dropping them altogether.

Sun famously didn't include ECC in their L2 cache, which resulted in transient failures for a number of customers, and they made customers sign an NDA before replacing their parts.

Eliminate the problem of analysis by replacing it with prototyping and revising.

If you absolutely must rewrite, consider isolating and replacing components piecemeal rather than scrapping the whole thing and starting over.

I found this quote interesting: "There are a decent number of people working on more efficient jet engines, but not very many civilians working on replacing the jet engine with something new.