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Exchangeable vs Swappable - What's the difference?

exchangeable | swappable |

As adjectives the difference between exchangeable and swappable

is that exchangeable is able to be exchanged while swappable is that can be swapped.

exchangeable

English

Alternative forms

* exchangable

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to be exchanged.
  • (finance) Having an associated right to be exchanged for another form of financial security.

    • swappable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That can be swapped.
  • * 2001', Per Brinch Hansen, ' Classic Operating Systems: From Batch Processing to Distributed Systems - page 451
    • The resident data structures of the kernels serve as caches on the swappable databases maintained by the managers.

    Derived terms

    * hot-swappable