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PERMUTATION
permutation
(noun) act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group
permutation
(noun) complete change in character or condition; “the permutations...taking place in the physical world”- Henry Miller
permutation
(noun) the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements
substitution, permutation, transposition, replacement, switch
(noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another; “the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
permutation (countable and uncountable, plural permutations)
One of the ways something exists, or the ways a set of objects can be ordered.
(mathematics) A one-to-one mapping from a finite set to itself.
(mathematics, combinatorics) An ordering of a finite set of distinct elements.
(music) A transformation of a set's prime form, by applying one or more of certain operations, specifically, transposition, inversion, and retrograde.
Anagrams
• importunate, premutation
Source: Wiktionary
Per`mu*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. permutatio: cf. F. permutation. See Permute.]
1. The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange. The violent convulsions and permutations that have been made in property. Burke.
2. (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.
3. (Law)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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