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Containing substitutions or replacements; having been subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a substituted ammonia. Substituted executor (Law), an executor appointed to act in place of one removed or resigned.…

nge owing its origin to the progress of a geosynclinal, and ending in a catastrophe of displacement and upturning. Dana.

of neutralizing four molecules of a monacid base; having four hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by bases; quadribasic; -- said of certain acids; thus, normal silicic acid, Si(OH)4, is a tetrabasic acid.

neutralizing four molecules of a monobasic acid; having four hydrogen atoms capable of replacement ba acids or acid atoms; -- said of certain bases; thus, erythrine, C4H6(OH)4, is a tetracid alcohol.

The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.

A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.

olecules of a monacid base, or their equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic elements on radicals; -- said of certain acids; thus, citric acid is a tribasic acid.

A glyceride formed by the replacement of three hydrogen atoms in glycerin by acid radicals.

The replacement of an edge or solid angle by a plane, especially when the plane is equally inclined to the adjoining faces.

The act of unshipping, or the state of being unshipped; displacement.

-- sometimes called virtual work. -- Virtual velocity (Mech.), a minute hypothetical displacement, assumed in analysis to facilitate the investigation of statical problems. With respect to any given force of a number of forces holding a material system in equilibrium, it is the projection, upon the direction of the f…

Any twisting or displacement of the intestines causing obstruction; ileus. See Ileus.

energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm. Wave front (Physics), the surface of initial displacement of the particles in a medium, as a wave of vibration advances. -- Wave length (Physics), the space, reckoned in the direction of propagation, occupied by a complete wave or undulation, as of light, sound, etc.; the dist…