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

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

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

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

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