substitutional love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or implying substitution; supplying, or capable of supplying, the place of another.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to substitution; standing in the place of another; substituted.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to substitution or to a substitute

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Examples

  • Finally, I was forced to go to court to obtain an order for substitutional service.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • If the rate of informational increase can be shown to be directly proportional to the substitutional load (and Kimura makes the argument that it can), then we are concerned with the changes in the allele's frequency, not the effects of its expression.

    Death of a popular anti-ID argument 2007

  • Furthermore, you will you recall Haldane's cost of substitution (which Kimura calls the 'substitutional load ) is dependent on the initial frequency of the allele, not the selection intensity.

    Death of a popular anti-ID argument 2007

  • H = Le/loge2 ~ 1. 44Le ( 'bits'/generation) where Le is the substitutional load measured in 'Malthusian parameters'.

    Death of a popular anti-ID argument 2007

  • Marcus herself proposes the substitutional reading of quantification to skirt the need for non-actual possible objects (Marcus 1976), and later suggests combining it with objectual quantification over actual objects (Marcus 1985/86).

    Possible Objects Yagisawa, Takashi 2009

  • Might as well write on the opportunity cost and utility of getting a puppy, and substitutional effects of puppies for children.

    Foresee the Empty Nest, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • It was demonstrated that the rate of accumulation of genetic information in adaptive evolution is directly proportional to to the substitutional load, i.e., the decrease of Darwininian fitness brought about by substituting for one gene its allelic form which is more fitted to a new environment.

    Death of a popular anti-ID argument 2007

  • Finally, I was forced to go to court to obtain an order for substitutional service.

    The ambiguous dexterity of Adrian MacNair 2009

  • It seems likely that the substitutional differences must be explained in terms of shifts in verb meaning.

    Propositions McGrath, Matthew 2007

  • Is there then a third way to understand the quantifiers that is neither referential nor substitutional?

    Stanisław Leśniewski Simons, Peter 2007

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