substitution
noun
- legal concept, the right to change the presiding court official with or without cause
- poetic device; use of an alien metric foot in a line of otherwise regular metrical pattern
- operation in algebra in which occurrences of some symbol are systematically replaced by a given value
- exchange one thing for another
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˌsʌb.stɪˈtjuː.ʃən/ / /ˌsʌb.stɪˈtu.ʃən/
noun
Etymology: From Middle French substitution, from Late Latin substitutio.
- 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.”
- The replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another.
- The expansion of the lexicon of a language by native means in correspondence to a foreign term.