To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.
To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.
To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document.
To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of.
To put in a new or different place.
Having some or all the atoms being exchanged for atoms of a similar element. The process of one mineral taking the place of another mineral or material, with one or two atoms per molecule in the structure being exchanged with a different one with similar characteristics, thus creating a new mineral that retains the shape of the first mineral. (See Pseudomorph for more information.) Also refers to one element of a mineral to partially or fully substitute itself to another element.
substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected); "He replaced the old razor blade"; "We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago"; "the insurance will replace the lost income"; "This antique vase can never be replaced"
take the place or move into the position of; "Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school"
put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"
In brief descriptions of dance figures, replace means replacing the weight to the previous support foot while keeping it in place. For example a "rock back" figure may be described as "step back, replace". Notice that it doesn't require to "replace" the moving foot to the place from where it come in the previous step.
Replace an item by another one in the container. The number of items in the container ( count) is not affected by this operation.
To remove one item and install another in its place.