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

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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

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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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