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Definition of SUBSTITUTION

Substitution
Substitution Sub`sti*tu"tion, n. [L. substitutio: cf. F. substitution.] 1. 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 of bank notes for gold and silver as a circulating medium. 2. The state of being substituted for another. 3. The office or authority of one acting for another; delegated authority. [R.] --Shak. 4. (Civil Law) The designation of a person in a will to take a devise or legacy, either on failure of a former devisee or legatee by incapacity or unwillingness to accept, or after him. --Burrill. 5. (Theol.) The doctrine that Christ suffered vicariously, being substituted for the sinner, and that his sufferings were expiatory. 6. (Chem.)The act or process of substituting an atom or radical for another atom or radical; metethesis; also, the state of being so substituted. See Metathesis.

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- up substitution in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Substitution may refer to: Substitution (poetry), a variation in poetic scansion Substitution (theatre)...
- deciphers the text by performing the inverse substitution process to extract the original message. Substitution ciphers can be compared with transposition...
- Some aliphatic compounds can undergo electrophilic substitution as well. In electrophilic substitution in aromatic compounds, an atom appended to the aromatic...
- used substitution splicing to create elaborate fantasy effects. D.W. Griffith's 1909 film The Curtain Pole, starring Mack Sennett, used substitution splices...
- a trochaic substitution would introduce a foot of "DUM da". In a line of verse that normally employs iambic meter, trochaic substitution describes the...
- In calculus, integration by substitution, also known as u-substitution, reverse chain rule or change of variables, is a method for evaluating integrals...
- Currency substitution is the use of a foreign currency in parallel to or instead of a domestic currency. Currency substitution can be full or partial...
- The tritone substitution is a common chord substitution found in both jazz and classical music. Where jazz is concerned, it was the precursor to more...
- Substitution tilings are special cases of finite subdivision rules, which do not require the tiles to be geometrically rigid. A tile substitution is...
- Sub (disambiguation) Substitution (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles ****ociated with the title Substitute. If an internal link led...