SPARE PART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spare part mean? 

• SPARE PART (noun)
  The noun SPARE PART has 1 sense:

1. an extra component of a machine or other apparatus

  Familiarity information: SPARE PART used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPARE PART (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An extra component of a machine or other apparatus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

spare; spare part

Hypernyms ("spare part" is a kind of...):

component; constituent; element (an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system)

 Context examples 

In our code everything likely to come up is named after some spare part.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)