substitution

See also: Substitution

English

Etymology

From Middle French substitution, from Late Latin substitutio.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌsʌbstəˈtuʃən/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌsʌbstɪˈtjuːʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: sub‧sti‧tu‧tion

Noun

substitution (countable and uncountable, plural substitutions)

1. The act of substituting or the state of being substituted.

   In this football tournament, three substitutions can be made during the match.

2. A substitute or replacement.

   Gary is off this weekend, so Jeff will be his substitution.

3. (chemistry, especially organic chemistry) The replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another.
4. (linguistics) The expansion of the lexicon of a language by native means in correspondence to a foreign term.

   Hypernym: loan

   Hyponyms: loan coinage, loan meaning

   Coordinate term: importation

Derived terms

• back substitution
• blood substitution
• Caesar substitution
• cosubstitution
• cryosubstitution
• disubstitution
• electrophilic substitution
• free substitution
• intersubstitution
• lexical substitution
• Liskov substitution principle
• metasubstitution
• monosubstitution
• nucleophilic substitution
• orthosubstitution
• oversubstitution
• parasubstitution
• penal substitution
• photosubstitution
• resubstitution
• string substitution
• substitutional
• substitutionary
• substitution cipher
• substitution code
• substitution of attorney
• substitution reaction
• substitution rule
• u-substitution

 

Translations

the act of substituting or the state of being substituted

• Catalan: substitució (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 替代 (zh) (tìdài), 代入 (zh) (dàirù)

• Dutch: substitutie (nl) f
• Esperanto: anstataŭigo
• Finnish: korvaaminen (fi), tuuraus, sijaisuus (fi)
• French: remplacement (fr) m
• Galician: substitución (gl) f, cambio (gl) m
• German: Ersatz (de) m, Ersetzen n (act)
• Gothic: 𐌹𐌽𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (inmaideins)
• Ido: substituco (io)
• Italian: sostituzione (it) f
• Japanese: 代入 (だいにゅう, dainyū), 置換 (ja) (ちかん, chikan)
• Malay: penggantian, substitusi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: substitusjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: substitusjon m

• Occitan: substitucion (oc) f
• Portuguese: substituição (pt) f
• Russian: заме́на (ru) f (zaména), подстано́вка (ru) f (podstanóvka)
• Spanish: sustitución (es) f, cambio (es) m
• Swedish: substitution (sv) c, utbyte (sv) n, ersättning (sv) c

substitute — see substitute

the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another

• Dutch: substitutie (nl)
• Finnish: substituutio (fi), korvautuminen
• French: réaction de substitution f
• German: Substitution (de) f, Substituierung f
• Indonesian: substitusi (id)
• Irish: malartaíocht f
• Malay: penukargantian, substitusi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: substitusjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: substitusjon m

• Portuguese: substituição (pt) f
• Swedish: substitution (sv) c
• Tagalog: paghuhulip

expansion of the lexicon by native means in correspondence to a foreign term

• Finnish: substituutio (fi)
• German: Ersetzung (de) f, lexikalische Ersetzung f, Substitution (de) f
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: utbyte (sv) n, substitution (sv) c

Anagrams

• bustitutions

French

Etymology

From Latin substitūtiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syp.sti.ty.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

substitution f (plural substitutions)

1. substitution

Related terms

• substituer

Further reading

• “substitution”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.