irreplaceability

Examples

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• We identify unprotected areas of the world that have remarkably high conservation value (irreplaceability) and are under serious threat.

  Academic text (2004)

• The criteria address the two key issues for setting site conservation priorities: vulnerability and irreplaceability.

  Academic text (2004)

• The Commission has thus far failed to seize a great opportunity to educate the book world on the irreplaceability of artifacts.

  Academic text (1992)

• Likewise, the final priority map depends on the criteria used to select the top sites in terms of irreplaceability and threat.

  Academic text (2004)

• Sites with progressively lower irreplaceability therefore have progressively more options for replacement.

  Academic text (2004)

• Neither irreplaceability nor threat alone adequately predicts which areas should be given priority in the allocation of conservation resources.

  Academic text (2004)

• Because this criterion is a measure of irreplaceability, a percentage threshold is likely to be appropriate for selecting sites for restricted-range species, as discussed above.

  Academic text (2004)

• The first of these four criteria (the presence of globally threatened species) addresses vulnerability, while the latter three cover different components of irreplaceability, following the two main considerations used.

  Academic text (2004)

• We therefore propose using percentage thresholds for the three irreplaceability criteria (in contrast to absolute thresholds for the threatened species criterion) so that thresholds vary according to the global population size of the trigger species.

  Academic text (2004)

• The museum emphasized the irreplaceability of its rare paintings, highlighting their unique historical significance.

Synonyms

I

irreplaceableness

vsirreplaceability

8.9

A quality when something is one of a kind and very needed so nothing can take its place

has identical meaning but is a different word form

I

incommutability

vsirreplaceability

9.9

A situation where something cannot be exchanged for something else

focuses on unique value that prevents substitution rather than general non-interchange

U

unexchangeability

vsirreplaceability

9.9

The fact that one thing cannot be swapped for another

emphasizes unique importance that blocks substitution, not just non-exchange

Antonyms

R

replaceability

6.7

How easy it is to swap one thing for another

How Replaceable

replaceability

6.7

irreplaceability

7.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology