substitution
Syllables: sub·sti·tu·tion/ˌsʌb.stɪˈtʃuː.ʃən/US/ˌsʌb.stɪˈtu.ʃən/
substitution noun: the act of substituting or the state of being substituted.
Noun
substitution (countable and uncountable, plural substitutions)
- The act of substituting or the state of being substituted.
- In this football tournament, three substitutions can be made during the match.
- Synonyms:
- commutation
- A substitute or replacement.
- Gary is off this weekend, so Jeff will be his substitution.
- The replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another.
- The expansion of the lexicon of a language by native means in correspondence to a foreign term.
substitution meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
substitution in Hindi
- substitution
- बदल badal
substitution in Tamil
- மாற்றீடு, நிகராக்கல்
substitution in Marathi
- प्रतिस्थापन
More languagesFewer languages
- substitution in Bengali
- বদলা bodola
- substitution in Malayalam
- ബദൽ badal
- substitution in Gujarati
- અવેજી
- substitution in Odia
- ପ୍ରତିସ୍ଥାପନ
- substitution in Tagalog
- paghuhulip
- substitution in Malay
- penggantian, substitusi, penukargantian
- substitution in Indonesian
- substitusi
Examples of substitution in a sentence
- The soccer coach made a like-for-like substitution, replacing the injured defender with another defensive player.
- BR thinking on such substitutions referred to "betterment", not profit or loss.
- We find that isoelectronic substitution with nonmagnetic ions significantly reduces the interkagome exchange coupling.
Synonyms of substitution
Forms of substitution
| plural | substitutions |
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Origin of substitution
From Middle French substitution, from Late Latin substitutio.
Words formed from substitution
- back substitution
- blood substitution
- bustitution
- Caesar substitution
- cosubstitution
- cryosubstitution
- disubstitution
- electrophilic substitution
- free substitution
- intersubstitution
- lexical substitution
- Liskov substitution principle
- metasubstitution
- monosubstitution
- multisubstitution
- nonsubstitution
- nucleophilic substitution
- orthosubstitution
- oversubstitution
- parasubstitution
- penal substitution
- photosubstitution
- resubstitution
- string substitution
- substitutional
- substitutionary
- substitution cipher
- substitution code
- substitution instance
- substitution of attorney
- substitution reaction
- substitution rule
- tetrasubstitution
- trisubstitution
- u-substitution
Phrases with substitution
Words that rhyme with substitution
- distribution
- resolution
- institution
- evolution
- involution
- ablution
- revolution
- convolution
- execution
- solution
- absolution
- constitution
26 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- devolution
- dilution
- pollution
- restitution
- attribution
- circumlocution
- contribution
- destitution
- dissolution
- prosecution
- diminution
- lilliputian
- prostitution
- Lucian
- robot revolution
- Rosicrucian
- Aleutian
- Confucian
- coresolution
- coupvolution
- Eeveelution
- elution
- nocturnal pollution
- persecution
- retribution
- robolution
Questions about substitution
- What does substitution mean?
- Substitution means the act of substituting or the state of being substituted.
- What is substitution in Hindi?
- Substitution in Hindi is बदल (badal). See Substitution meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is substitution?
- Substitution is a noun.
- How do you pronounce substitution?
- Substitution is pronounced /ˌsʌb.stɪˈtʃuː.ʃən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of substitution?
- The plural of substitution is substitutions.
Words near substitution in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: substitution (page history and authors); बदल (Hindi) (page history and authors); substitution (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); substitution (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); substitution (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); বদলা (Bengali) (page history and authors); ബദൽ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); substitution (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); substitution (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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