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repl.

repl. is the abbreviation of replacement.

Meaning of replacement

Noun

replacement (countable and uncountable, plural replacements)

  1. A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
    • Rovers lost keeper Robinson to a calf problem at half-time and his replacement Mark Bunn, making his Premier League debut, was immediately called into action - pushing away a vicious Peter Odemwingie drive at the near post.2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC
  2. The act of replacing something.
    • The replacement of that broken light-bulb will have to wait until I can buy a new one.
  3. The removal of an edge of crystal, by one plane or more.

Questions about repl.

What is repl. the abbreviation of?
Repl. is the abbreviation of replacement.

Words near repl. in the dictionary

  1. Repka
  2. Repkas
  3. Repko
  4. Repkos
  5. REPL
  6. repl.
  7. repla
  8. replacable
  9. replace
  10. replaceabilities
  11. replaceability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: repl. (page history and authors); replacement (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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