substitution
n. C / Un. the act of replacing one thing or person with another. You use this when you swap an ingredient in a recipe or a player in a game.
n. the action of replacing someone or something with another person or thing. Often used in technical contexts to describe the replacement of one element, sound, or player with a functional equivalent.
The chef made a substitution because he ran out of cream.
The coach made a late substitution to bring on a fresh defender for the final five minutes.
In historical linguistics, sound substitution occurs when speakers replace a foreign phoneme with the closest equivalent from their native inventory to ease pronunciation.
From Middle French substitution, from Late Latin substitutio.
Often takes the preposition 'for' to indicate the item being replaced or 'of' to indicate the act itself.
a substitution to the originala substitution for the originalSubstitution typically takes the preposition 'for' when identifying the thing that was replaced.