substitution

How To Use substitution In A Sentence

• The dependent clause functions as a substitution item in a frame, the frame being the rest of the sentence.
• In an act of substitution he replaces barren dryness with his fertile fluidity.
• Whether normal Spanish verse has, or ever had, binary movement, with the occasional substitution of a "troche" for an "iambic," or vice-versa, is in dispute. [ Modern Spanish Lyrics
• The substitution of mortadella for the Vietnamese bologna/pork roll also worked, but their house-made terrine, which is nice on its own, lacked the wonderful funkiness of Vietnamese head cheese and pâté. Serious Eats: New York
• We use the fact that processed pseudogenes and functional genes are subject to different nucleotide-substitution patterns.
• The elasticity of substitution measures how the relative use of an input changes when its relative price changes. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
• Under the substitutional theory of artifact production, the forgeries of documents so common in the Middle Ages can be understood as the legitimate reproduction of accidentally misplaced facts.
• There's also a pretty good chance that we could have a last minute substitution for the cranberry relish.
• This is in contrast to recently published reports in which good performance of reconstruction methods was recorded despite extensive substitutional saturation.
• Gene trees in which the observed substitutions were apportioned to the various branches of the tree by phylogenetic algorithms provided the inferred substitutions on each green or nongreen branch.