Substitution Explained

Substitution may refer to:

Arts and media

• Substitution (poetry), a variation in poetic scansion
• Substitution (theatre), an acting methodology

Music

• Chord substitution, swapping one chord for a related one within a chord progression
• Tritone substitution, reinterpreting a chord via a new root note located an augmented fourth or diminished fifth distant from the root of the original interpretation
• "Substitution" (Silversun Pickups song), a 2009 song by Silversun Pickups
• "Substitution" (Purple Disco Machine and Kungs song), a 2023 song by Purple Disco Machine and Kungs

Science and mathematics

Biology and chemistry

• Base-pair substitution or point mutation, a type of mutation
• Substitution reaction, where a functional group in a chemical compound is replaced by another group
• Substitution, a process in which an allele arises and undergoes fixation

Mathematics and computing

• Substitution (algebra), replacing occurrences of some symbol by a given value
• Substitution (logic), a syntactic transformation on strings of symbols of a formal language
• String substitution, a mapping of letters in an alphabet to languages
• Substitution of a character in a string, one of the single-character edits used to define the Levenshtein distance
• Substitution cipher, a method of encryption
• Integration by substitution, a method for finding antiderivatives and integrals

Other uses in science

• Substitution (economics), switching between alternative consumable goods as their relative prices change
• Attribute substitution, a psychological process thought to underlie a number of cognitive biases and perceptual illusions
• Substitution method, a method of measuring the transmission loss of an optical fiber

Other uses

• Substitution (law), the replacement of a judge
• Substitution (sport), where a sports team is able to change one player for another during a match

Within Wikipedia

• , help performing substitution on Wikipedia pages
• , page that shows what will result from substitution
• , where, when, how, and what about using substitution on Wikipedia

See also

• Import substitution industrialization, a trade and economic policy
• Penal substitution, a theory of the atonement within Christian theology
• Simultaneous substitution, a practice requiring Canadian television distribution companies to substitute a non-local station signal with the local signal
• Substituent, an atom or group of atoms
• Substitute (disambiguation)
• Substitution therapy or opiate replacement therapy