replacive
English
Etymology
replace + -ive
Adjective
replacive (not comparable)
- (linguistics) Denoting replacement.
- 1969, Sidney Greenbaum, Studies in English adverbial usage
- Replacive conjuncts indicate that what is being said is a replacement for what has been said before.
- 1969, Sidney Greenbaum, Studies in English adverbial usage
- (mineralogy) Of or relating to replacement of one mineral by another, or a rock which exhibits such replacement.
- 2003, M. J. Salem & Khaled M. Oun, Sedimentary Basins of Libya, Second Symposium, page 166:
- Early replacive calcite and late replacive calcite exhibit similar carbon isotope and different oxygen isotope compositions.
- a mass of nodular replacive anhydrite
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