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Exchangeable

Exchangeable \Ex*change"a*ble\, a. [Cf.F. ['e]changeable.]

  1. Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged.

    The officers captured with Burgoyne were exchangeable within the powers of General Howe.
    --Marshall.

  2. Available for making exchanges; ratable. ``An exchangeable value.''
    --J. S. Mill.

Wiktionary
exchangeable

a. 1 Able to be exchanged. 2 (context finance English) Having an associated right to be exchanged for another form of financial security.

WordNet
exchangeable
  1. adj. suitable to be exchanged [ant: unexchangeable]

  2. capable of being exchanged for or replaced by something of equal value; "convertible securities" [syn: convertible] [ant: inconvertible]

  3. capable of replacing or changing places with something else; "interchangeable parts" [syn: interchangeable, similar, standardized, standardised]

Wikipedia
Exchangeable

Exchangeable may refer to:

  • Exchangeable batteries, used with battery swapping in charging stations
  • Exchangeable bond, a type of hybrid security
  • Exchangeable image file format (Exif), a specification for the image file format used by digital cameras
  • Exchangeable random variables, in statistics, a set of random variables whose joint distribution is the same irrespective of the order of the variables

Usage examples of "exchangeable".

If things are worth as much as the labour devoted to them, or if their value is at least proportionate to that labour, it is not that labour is a fixed and constant value exchangeable as such in all places and all times, it is because any value, whatever it may be, has its origin in labour.

The Altairan Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flaninian Pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other Flaninian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems.