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noun

Permutation n.

The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange. "The violent convulsions and permutations that have been made in property."

(Math.)

(a)

The arrangement of any determinate number of things, as units, objects, letters, etc., in all possible orders, one after the other; called also alternation. Cf. Combination, n., 4.

(b)

Any one of such possible arrangements.

(Law) Barter; exchange.

Permutation lock, a lock in which the parts can be transposed or shifted, so as to require different arrangements of the tumblers on different occasions of unlocking.

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Etymology of 'Permutation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Permutation" Quotes from Famous Books

... the masculine is i, of the neuter u, and, as I have already observed, a permutation of the semi-vowels l and r takes place, the letter becoming l in the masculine, r in the neuter. A slight difference in many words is noticeable when pronounced by women or by men. The former would say keretin, to marry; the latter kerejun. The gender ...

— The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations • Daniel G. Brinton

... perfectly fascinated with the mathematical rules of "combination, permutation, and variation," but unhappily I could not give much time to their study, which I have regretted ever since. Otherwise, what I learned from the lectures was too slight for what I wanted, being, unluckily, altogether foreign to my nature, and more often ...

— Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel • Friedrich Froebel

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