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substitution
English
Etymology
From Middle French substitution, from Late Latin substitutio.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?s?bst??tu??n/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?s?bst??tju???n/
Noun
substitution (countable and uncountable, plural substitutions)
- The act of substituting or the state of being substituted.
- A substitute or replacement.
- (chemistry, especially organic chemistry) The replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another.
- (linguistics) The expansion of the lexicon of a language by native means in correspondence to a foreign term.
- Hypernym: loan
- Hyponyms: loan coinage, loan meaning
- Coordinate term: importation
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- bustitutions
French
Etymology
From Latin substit?ti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /syp.sti.ty.sj??/
Noun
substitution f (plural substitutions)
- substitution
Related terms
- substituer
Further reading
- “substitution” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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transfiguration
English
Noun
transfiguration (countable and uncountable, plural transfigurations)
- A major change in appearance or form; a metamorphosis.
- A change that exalts or glorifies.
- superposition of one or more ideal-elements in comparison with other real ones, often through imagination but sometimes at the risk of confusing when not clearly realized.
Translations
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