substitution
See also: Substitution
English
Etymology
From Middle French substitution, from Late Latin substitutio.
Pronunciation
Noun
substitution (countable and uncountable, plural substitutions)
- The act of substituting or the state of being substituted.
- In this football tournament, three substitutions can be made during the match.
- A substitute or replacement.
- Gary is off this weekend, so Jeff will be his substitution.
- (chemistry, especially organic chemistry) The replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another.
- (linguistics) The expansion of the lexicon of a language by native means in correspondence to a foreign term.
- Hypernym: loan
- Hyponyms: loan coinage, loan meaning
- Coordinate term: importation
Derived terms
- back substitution
- blood substitution
- Caesar substitution
- cosubstitution
- cryosubstitution
- disubstitution
- electrophilic substitution
- free substitution
- intersubstitution
- lexical substitution
- Liskov substitution principle
- metasubstitution
- monosubstitution
- nucleophilic substitution
- orthosubstitution
- oversubstitution
- parasubstitution
- penal substitution
- photosubstitution
- resubstitution
- string substitution
- substitutional
- substitutionary
- substitution cipher
- substitution code
- substitution of attorney
- substitution reaction
- substitution rule
- u-substitution
Translations
the act of substituting or the state of being substituted
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substitute — see substitute
the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another
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expansion of the lexicon by native means in correspondence to a foreign term
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Latin substitūtiōnem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /syp.sti.ty.sjɔ̃/
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Related terms
Further reading
- “substitution”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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