adjective
- Subject to alteration or change.
- usage: "the death sentence was commutable to life imprisonment"
- Capable of being exchanged for another or for something else that is equivalent.
- synonyms: substitutable
Commutable and Replaceable
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(a.) Capable of being commuted or interchanged.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
adjective
- Capable of being replaced. .
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (a.) Capable of being replaced (by) or of being exchanged (for); as, the hydrogen of acids is replaceable by metals or by basic radicals.
- (a.) Capable or admitting of being put back into a place.
- (a.) Admitting of having its place supplied by a like thing or an equivalent; as, the lost book is replaceable.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary