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Example sentences from the Web for substitutionNo prize transfer, assignment, or substitution by Winner is permitted. The Orbitz Business Travel Survey Sweepstakes||December 14, 2012|DAILY BEAST The substitution of an effect for a cause is an old technique and trick of classical sophistry. Demonization Is No Excuse|Hussein Ibish|November 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST The Prize is nontransferable and no substitution of the Prize by the Grand Prize Winner is allowed. OFFICIAL RULES OF THE IMAX® Award Contest—Deadline Extended||October 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST Yet here is the great problem with Murray's substitution of imagery for numbers in his social thought. What the Founders Would Tell Charles Murray|David Frum|February 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST
If the older form were Gaelic, the substitution, or translation, would have been superfluous. A Handbook of the English Language|Robert Gordon Latham He encouraged the substitution, that was inaugurated by Killigrew, of women for boys in female parts. A Life of William Shakespeare|Sidney Lee There was one weighty reason for the overthrow of the gentes and the substitution of a new plan of government. Ancient Society|Lewis Henry Morgan The size and weight of books was also reduced by the substitution of pasteboards for wooden sides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2|Various Besides, any substitution of self for self would be useless, for there is no more self there. The Flaw in the Crystal|May Sinclair
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nounthe act of substituting or state of being substituted something or someone substituted maths the replacement of a term of an equation by another that is known to have the same value in order to simplify the equation maths logic - the uniform replacement of one expression by another
- substitution instance an expression so derived from another
Words nearby substitutionsubstantivize, substation, substernal goiter, substituent, substitute, substitution, substitution cipher, substitution product, substitution reaction, substitution therapy, substitution transfusion Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to substitutiontrade, swap, change, exchange Medical definitions for substitution
n.The replacement of an atom or group of atoms in a compound by another atom or group of atoms. An unconscious defense mechanism by which the unacceptable or unattainable is replaced by something more acceptable or attainable. The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |