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interchangeable adjective & adverb. LME.
[Old French entrechangeable, formed as INTERCHANGE verb: see -ABLE.]
A. adjective.
Mutual, reciprocal. LME-M17.
Of two things: able to be interchanged; allowing an exchange of place or function. Of one thing: able to be exchanged with another. L15.
J. S. Foster Progress in the manufacture of interchangeable components..is still slow. C. Thubron The peasant women looked interchangeable with their men, unsexed by the same shapeless trousers and jackets.
Alternating. M16-L18.
Subject to change, changeable. L16-M18.
B. adverb. Mutually. LME-M17.
interchangea'bility noun E19.
interchangeableness noun M16.
interchangeably adverb (a) (now rare) mutually, respectively; (b) alternately; (c) by way of interchange; (of the use of words) synonymously, with equal meaning or force: LME.