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

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

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

Only in the course of artistic development do we find the rigid, yet often unbalanced, symmetry relaxing into a free substitutional symmetry, and the formless narrative crystallizing into a really unified and balanced space form.

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