substitution — meaning in English
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English meaning
- substitution noun The act of putting one thing in place of another, or the result of doing so.
Senses
substitution is used for these senses in English:
- substitution The act of substituting or the state of being substituted.
- substitution (chemistry, especially, organic chemistry) The replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another.
- substitution (linguistics) The expansion of the lexicon of a language by native means in correspondence to a foreign term.