Synonyms:
substitution, permutation, transposition, replacement, switch
Meaning: an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"
Usage examples
But this is not the only way in which public opinion is leading men to the abolition of the prevailing order and the substitution of a new order.
Some kinds of goods are produced from such very common materials that it might seem possible, by the substitution of agents, to produce an unlimited supply.
When deity speaks and deity reports the speeches, all should be absolute truth transparently self-consistent, else what advantage or gain have we by the substitution of God for Man?
The substitution of the octavo for the folio, and certain modifications in binding which made it possible to stand books upright instead of laying one above the other with edges outward, gradually gave to the library a more modern aspect.