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What does surrogate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word surrogate? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
  2. A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate mother.
  3. (chiefly Britain) A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
  4. (US law): A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and interstate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
  5. A surrogate or surrogate key is a unique identifier for either an entity in the modeled world or an object in the database.
  6. (computing) Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
Adjective
  1. Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor.
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