substitution – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
substitution
n.
replacement; act or instance of substituting
Substitution
Substitution may refer to:
Science and mathematics
- Attribute substitution, psychological process thought to underlie a number of cognitive biases and perceptual illusions.
- Base-pair substitution or point mutation, a type of mutation
- Integration by substitution, a method for finding antiderivatives and integrals
- String substitution, a mapping of letters in an alphabet to languages
- Substitution (algebra), replacing occurrences of some symbol by a given value
- Substitution (logic), a syntactic transformation on strings of symbols of a formal language
- Substitution cipher, a method of encryption
- Substitution method, a method of measuring the transmission loss of a fibre
- Substitution reaction, where a functional group in a chemical compound is replaced by another group
- Substitution, a process in which an allele arises and undergoes fixation
substitution
Noun
1. an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"
(synonym) permutation, transposition, replacement, switch
(hypernym) variation, fluctuation
(derivation) substitute, sub, stand in, fill in
2. the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: "he sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help"
(synonym) exchange, commutation
(hypernym) change
(hyponym) replacement, replacing
(derivation) substitute, replace
Substitution (die)
nf.
substitution, replacement, surrogation
substitution
nf.
substitution, replacement, change
