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substituend en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˌsʌbˈstɪtjuənd/
  • /ˌsʌbˈstɪt͡ʃuənd/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin substituendus; compare substituendum.

Meanings

  1. A substitute; something that substitutes for another.
    • Note that a variable is a substituend of a variable only in a vacuous sense , and so we shall be ignoring them while speaking of the substituends of a given variable. 1998, Pranab Kumar Sen, Logic, Identity, and Consistency (Studies in Philosophical and Non-Standard Logic; II), Allied Publishers, →ISBN, page 134:
    • Each substituend SN, it seems, would amount to the same thing as its corresponding UN in SOME not very strained context. 1972, John King-Farlow, W.N. Christensen, “Probability and the 'Will to Believe'”, in Logic, Identity, and Consistency, D. Reidel, →ISBN, page 177:
    • The pragmatic process of substitution requires some given context to provide an appropriate substituend for a metavariable projected by a pronoun. 2006 March 13, Lutz Martin, “Relative Clause Construal”, in The Dynamics of Language, Brill, →ISBN, page 85:
  2. A substituendum; something to be substituted or replaced.
    • […]but since the substitute y is not treated like the substituend vowel, the option will not prevail. 1989 [c. 450 BCE], Pāṇini, translated by Sumitra M. Katre, Aṣṭādhyāyī, page 22:
    • The substituend item bhis is one of the twenty-one case suffixes (sUP or vibhakti) introduced as a set in Pāṇ. 4.1.2. 1994, Pieter C. Verhagen, “Structure and Method”, in A History of Sanskrit Grammatical Literature in Tibet, volume II, Brill, page 227:
    • But those (same) meanings belong to the substitutes because of the rule accepted in the Bhāṣya that only that is a substitute which is capable of expressing the meaning of the substituend. 2012 December 6 [1979], Johannes Bronkhorst, Tradition and Argument in Classical Indian Linguistics, Springer Netherlands, →ISBN, page 98:

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