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

As these somewhat infrequent cases are especially enlightening for the theory of substitutional symmetry, it is worth while to analyze one in detail.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo

I put up then with such inferior substitutional suggestions as Geneva and Paris afforded—but these black old Naples streets are not suggestions, they are the reality itself—full orchestra.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William

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

The Calvinistic dogma makes it denote the satisfaction of the law of retributive justice by a substitutional anguish.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville