substituend

plural substituends

1. human sciencesA substitute; something that substitutes for another.

   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

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   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

   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. human sciencesA 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

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   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