Example sentences for: substitutability

How can you use “substitutability” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Increasing degree of substitutability between postal delivery services and telephone services over past decade, from -0.

  • This invalidated the previously unquestioned Principle of the Substitutability of Identicals, which had been formulated by Leibniz in his battle with Figby Newton for recognition as the original discoverer of the infinitesimal calculus.

  • they illustrate 1) Decline in revenue share from household sector 2) Increasing, in absolute value, own-price elasticity 3) Increasing substitutability away from postage consumption with computer use 4) Increasing substitutability between postage and telephone consumption.

  • The answer has nothing to do with their cause, however, but with the simple fact that dictionaries are not exercises in bi-unique substitutability; in other words, if one of the senses of run is `operate' (as in She runs an engine factory ), that does not make it valid to assume that one can substitute operate for run in We run in the marathon every year . Although recognizing this as a shortcoming of dictionaries and assigning it arbitrarily to what, for lack of a better term, we might call the “genius” of the language, might seem trivial to the casual observer, it is a valid matter for concern in the realm of lexicology.


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