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Definition of Substitutions
1. substitution [n] - See also: substitution
Lexicographical Neighbors of Substitutions
Literary usage of Substitutions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In any rational equation between (he roots of (1) the substitutions of G may ...
These substitutions form a subgroup of G called the group belonging to 0. ..."
2. Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable by Andrew Russell Forsyth (1893)
"There may however be relations among the substitutions of the group, depending
on the fundamental substitutions ; they are, ultimately, relations among the ..."
3. The Civil Law in Its Natural Order by Jean Domat (1850)
"THE substitutions of which we are to treat under this title are but little known
under this name ... And as for the substitutions treated of here, that is, ..."
4. Theory and Applications of Finite Groups by George Abram Miller, Hans Frederick Blichfeldt, Leonard Eugene Dickson (1916)
"words, either all the substitutions of a substitution group are positive or ...
Whenever a group contains negative substitutions it contains a subgroup of ..."
5. Theory and Applications of Finite Groups by George Abram Miller, Hans Frederick Blichfeldt, Leonard Eugene Dickson (1916)
"Whenever a group contains negative substitutions it contains a subgroup of half
its own order, composed of its positive substitutions. ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1897)
"We proceed to find the forms of the substitutions of the subgroup of G,, which
contains all its substitutions that do not involve a given element. ..."
7. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1892)
"[ABSTRACT, i THE general group is that of the substitutions where a, 6, c, d are
any quantities satisfying the relation ad ..."
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