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substitutions

substitutions is the plural of substitution.

Meaning of substitution

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.
    Synonyms:
    commutation
  2. A substitute or replacement.
    • Gary is off this weekend, so Jeff will be his substitution.
  3. (especially) The replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another.
  4. The expansion of the lexicon of a language by native means in correspondence to a foreign term.

Phrases with substitutions

Questions about substitutions

What is substitutions the plural of?
Substitutions is the plural of substitution.

Words near substitutions in the dictionary

  1. substitutional
  2. substitutionally
  3. substitutionary
  4. substitutionary atonement
  5. substitutionary atonements
  6. substitutions
  7. substitutive
  8. substitutive nomenclature
  9. substitutively
  10. substitutivity
  11. substitutor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: substitutions (page history and authors); substitution (page history and authors). 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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