interconvertible

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For, by a marvelous harmony, in social economy all these adjectives are interconvertible.

From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)

Manhood and brass buttons were with her interconvertible terms, and the idea of uniting her young life to a plain civilian seemed to her nothing less than shocking.

From Captain Jinks, Hero by Beard, Daniel Carter

The most important issue before the people was declared to be "the proper solution of the money question," meaning thereby the issue of greenbacks interconvertible with bonds.

From The Agrarian Crusade; a chronicle of the farmer in politics by Buck, Solon J. (Solon Justus)

All we have to say is, that, if we do not now absolutely know, we do reasonably suspect, that heat and light are mere mechanical motions, alike in nature and interconvertible in fact.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various

The several forms of energy are interconvertible, and possess an exact quantitative equivalence.

From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Thurston, Robert H.