replacive
adjEtymology From replace + -ive.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Denoting replacement.
- 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:
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Chemistry, Geography, Geology, Mineralogy, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Of or relating to replacement of one mineral by another, or a rock which exhibits such replacement.
- Early replacive calcite and late replacive calcite exhibit similar carbon isotope and different oxygen isotope compositions.2003, M. J. Salem, Khaled M. Oun, Sedimentary Basins of Libya, Second Symposium, page 166:
- a mass of nodular replacive anhydrite