substitution

Related Terms

• permuting (v): to change the order or arrangement of.
  Synonyms: permuting, permute, permuted, permutes, commuting, commute, commuted, commutes, transposing, transpose, transposed, transposes "Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word"
• substituting (v): to put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items.
  Synonyms: substituting, substitute, substituted, substitutes "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk", replacing, replace, replaced, replaces "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"
• exchanging (v): to hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent.
  Synonyms: exchanging, exchange, exchanged, exchanges "exchange prisoners"
• commuting (v): to move from one side of an equation to the other side without a change in value.
  Synonyms: commuting, commute, commuted, commutes "These operators commute with each other", transposing, transpose, transposed, transposes

Keywords and Synonyms

• substitution "he sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help", exchange, commutation