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Replacement vs Installation - What's the difference?

replacement | installation |

As nouns the difference between replacement and installation

is that replacement is a person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute while installation is installation.

replacement

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
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  • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Kevin Darlin , title=West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Rovers lost keeper Robinson to a calf problem at half-time and his replacement Mark Bunn, making his Premier League debut, was immediately called into action - pushing away a vicious Peter Odemwingie drive at the near post.}}
  • The act of replacing something.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * overreplacement * subreplacement
    See also
    * spare part

    installation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of installing.
  • Something installed, especially the whole of a system of machines, apparatus, and accessories, when set up and arranged for practical working, as in electric lighting, transmission of power, etc.
  • A work of installation art.
  • A grouping of facilities that constitute a permanent military base
  • Derived terms

    * installation art ----