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substitution
Word definitions for substitution in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In English poetry substitution , also known as inversion , is the use of an alien metric foot in a line of otherwise regular metrical pattern . For instance in an iambic line of "da DUM", a trochaic substitution would introduce a foot of "DUM da".
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood" [syn: permutation , transposition , replacement , switch ] the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: "he sent ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the act of substituting or the state of being substituted 2 a substitute or replacement 3 (context chemistry English) (especially in organic chemistry) the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN crop ▪ Part I of the resolution also urged greater assistance to governments engaged in crop substitution programmes. ▪ Aid agencies still fear that crop substitution projects will endanger the lives of their staff. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Substitution \Sub`sti*tu"tion\, n. [L. substitutio: cf. F. substitution.] The act of substituting or putting one person or thing in the place of another; as, the substitution of an agent, attorney, or representative to act for one in his absense; the substitution ...
Usage examples of substitution.
There, in a place where no one knew Mero, there could be a substitution.
But there is no reason to anticipate a speedy breakdown of what one may call particularist religion and the substitution therefor of a faith built up out of many diverse elements and held in common by widely separated tempers.
Such words as peltast, androgyn, and exultant are substitutions of this kind, and are intended to be suggestive rather than definitive.
I would show how stretches of the supercoiled chromosome are simple substitutions for polypeptide chains.
Substitution for a presentment or indictment by a grand jury of the proceeding by information, after examination and commitment by a magistrate, certifying to the probable guilt of the defendant, with the right on his part to the aid of counsel, and to the cross-examination of the witnesses produced for the prosecution is due process of law.
The understanding of the sexual substitution concept provides a criminal profiler with a clearer and more accurate mental picture of the killer.
The substitution of potassium chlorate for pyrolusite is recommended when calcium chloride is present in the bittern.
The contrary might be maintained: that change is more plausibly ranked as a species than is Motion, because change signifies merely the substitution of one thing for another, whereas Motion involves also the removal of a thing from the place to which it belongs, as is shown by locomotion.
As the formula, which we have developed and published here, shows, it is an organic product of substitution in which the styrolene radical and the molybdenum metal occupy the six vertices of a benzine carbide.
As everyone knows today, this compound is formed by the substitution of three atoms of molybdenum and three styrolene radicals in the benzene nucleus.
Beatrice Mangan provide Macrodur with a copy of the Tokyo research confirming eradication of the allomorphic trait in the body through substitution of human DNA.
This is the elemental form of polyalphabetic substitution, for it exhibits all at once all the cipher alphabets in a particular system.
This would have the effect of enciphering one letter into another in a monoalphabetic substitution.
This reverse process, far from being limited with Kundera to an analogy accompanied by a mere substitution of characters, achieves the status of a veritable gnoseological exploration of the theme through its numerous semantic and formal, textual and intertextual transformations.
It was Wagner who created the contradiction which puts his operas in opposition by his substitution of the sacred lance as a dramatic motive for the question.