substitutions
- 1Plural of substitution.
Several last-minute substitutions changed the chemistry of the team.
The editor flagged a series of awkward word substitutions in the draft.
Note
A plural that works only where the singular can be counted. Substitution names both the general act of replacing and single instances of it, and only the countable use takes a plural: two substitutions are two separate swaps, or two stand-ins. In chemistry the plural counts replacements of atoms or groups within a compound. In linguistics it counts native coinages made to match foreign terms.
substitutions is a form of substitution
substitution, noun: The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or the state of having been replaced. Full entry
- Forms
- substitutionsubstitutions plural
- Spelling
- substitution → substitutions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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