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- Substitution - n. - The act of substituting or putting one person or thing in the place of another; as, the substitution of an agent, attorney, or representative to act for one in his absense; the substitution of bank notes for gold and silver as a circulating medium.
- Substitution - n. - The state of being substituted for another.
- Substitution - n. - The office or authority of one acting for another; delegated authority.
- Substitution - n. - The designation of a person in a will to take a devise or legacy, either on failure of a former devisee or legatee by incapacity or unwillingness to accept, or after him.
- Substitution - n. - The doctrine that Christ suffered vicariously, being substituted for the sinner, and that his sufferings were expiatory.
- Substitution - n. - The act or process of substituting an atom or radical for another atom or radical; metethesis; also, the state of being so substituted. See Metathesis.
- Substitutional - a. - Of or pertaining to substitution; standing in the place of another; substituted.
- Substitutionary - a. - Of or pertaining to substitution; substitutional.
- Pentacid - a. - Capable of neutralizing, or combining with, five molecules of a monobasic acid; having five hydrogen atoms capable of substitution by acid residues; -- said of certain complex bases.
- Enharmonical - a. - Pertaining to a change of notes to the eye, while, as the same keys are used, the instrument can mark no difference to the ear, as the substitution of A/ for G/.
- Split - n. - the substitution of more than one share of a corporation's stock for one share. The market price of the stock usually drops in proportion to the increase in outstanding shares of stock. The split may be in any ratio, as a two-for-one split; a three-for-two split.
- Change - v. t. - A succesion or substitution of one thing in the place of another; a difference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons.
- Novation - n. - A substitution of a new debt for an old one; also, the remodeling of an old obligation.
- Phenylamine - n. - Any one of certain class of organic bases regarded as formed from ammonia by the substitution of phenyl for hydrogen.
- Primary - a. - Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
- Mercurammonium - n. - A radical regarded as derived from ammonium by the substitution of mercury for a portion of the hydrogen.
- Aluminate - n. - A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.
- Reciprocal - a. - Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities. See the Phrases below.
- Metalammonium - n. - A hypothetical radical derived from ammonium by the substitution of metallic atoms in place of hydrogen.
- Commutation - n. - A substitution, as of a less thing for a greater, esp. a substitution of one form of payment for another, or one payment for many, or a specific sum of money for conditional payments or allowances; as, commutation of tithes; commutation of fares; commutation of copyright; commutation of rations.
- Subrogation - n. - The substitution of one person in the place of another as a creditor, the new creditor succeeding to the rights of the former; the mode by which a third person who pays a creditor succeeds to his rights against the debtor.
- Allomorph - n. - A variety of pseudomorph which has undergone partial or complete change or substitution of material; -- thus limonite is frequently an allomorph after pyrite.
- Ablaut - n. - The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung.
- Nay - adv. - Not this merely, but also; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition or substitution of a more explicit or more emphatic phrase.
- Translocation - n. - removal of things from one place to another; substitution of one thing for another.
- Bromoform - n. - A colorless liquid, CHBr3, having an agreeable odor and sweetish taste. It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine and caustic potash upon wood spirit, alcohol, or acetone, as also by certain other reactions. In composition it is the same as chloroform, with the substitution of bromine for chlorine. It is somewhat similar to chloroform in its effects.
- Degeneration - n. - That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver.
- Revolution - n. - A fundamental change in political organization, or in a government or constitution; the overthrow or renunciation of one government, and the substitution of another, by the governed.
- Tertiary - a. - Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary.
- Pentabasic - a. - Capable of uniting with five molecules of a monacid base; having five acid hydrogen atoms capable of substitution by a basic radical; -- said of certain acids.
- Derivative - n. - A substance so related to another substance by modification or partial substitution as to be regarded as derived from it; thus, the amido compounds are derivatives of ammonia, and the hydrocarbons are derivatives of methane, benzene, etc.
- Sulphoarsenic - a. - Of, pertaining to, or containing, sulphur and arsenic; -- said of an acid which is the same as arsenic acid with the substitution of sulphur for oxygen.
- Substitution - n. - The act of substituting or putting one person or thing in the place of another; as, the substitution of an agent, attorney, or representative to act for one in his absense; the substitution of bank notes for gold and silver as a circulating medium.
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