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

This paper, then, will contain three sections: an introductory one on symmetry in primitive art, and two main sections, one on experiments in substitutional symmetry, and one on substitutional symmetry or balance in pictures.

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

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

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

Therefore, it may be considered that the existence of a perfect substitutional symmetry has been established, inasmuch as it has been shown to be almost invariably present in the types examined.

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