substitution

noun

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  • singular : substitution
  • plural : substitutions

Senses

  • 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