substitution

See also: Substitution

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French substitution, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  substitutio.

Noun

substitution (countable and uncountable, plural substitutions)

1. The act of substituting or the state of being substituted.
2. A substitute or replacement.
3. (chemistry, especially organic chemistry) The replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another.

Derived terms

• back substitution
• blood substitution
• cosubstitution
• cryosubstitution
• disubstitution
• electrophilic substitution
• free substitution
• intersubstitution
• 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

• Chinese:

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

• Esperanto: anstataŭigo
• Finnish: korvaaminen (fi), tuuraus, sijaisuus (fi)
• French: remplacement (fr) m
• German: Ersatz (de) m
• Ido: substituco (io)
• Italian: sostituzione (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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

• Portuguese: substituição (pt) f
• Russian: заме́на (ru) f (zaména), подстано́вка (ru) f (podstanóvka)
• Spanish: sustitución (es) f

substitute — see substitute

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

• Finnish: substituutio (fi), korvautuminen
• French: réaction de substitution f
• German: Substitution (de) f, Substituierung f
• Irish: malartaíocht f
• Malay: penukargantian, substitusi
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: substitusjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: substitusjon m

• Portuguese: substituição (pt) f
• Tagalog: paghuhulip

Anagrams

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syp.sti.ty.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

substitution f (plural substitutions)

1. substitution