substitutional
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Finally, in the bulk absorber at the atomic scale, elemental vacancy and substitutional defects, such as VCu, In and CuZn, significantly affect doping and recombination, and consequently device performance.
From Nature • Aug. 15, 2012
It is thus in a kind of substitutional symmetry, or balance, that we have the objective condition or counterpart of aesthetic repose, or unity.
From The Psychology of Beauty by Howes, Ethel Dench Puffer
It seems, then, reasonable to assume that if the variations from symmetry show constantly recurring tendencies, they represent the chief factors in such a substitutional symmetry or balance, supposing it to exist.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo
The Savior himself is reported as saying, "I lay down my life that I may take it again:" the dying was not for the sake of substitutional suffering, but for the sake of a resurrection.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
Our author appositely quotes from Puffer's Studies in Symmetry: "A picture composed in substitutional symmetry is more rich in its suggestions of motor impulse, and thus more beautiful, than an example of geometrical symmetry."
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
