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PERMUTE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they permute ... he / she / it permutes
Past simple: permuted
-ing form: permuting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Change the order or arrangement of
Example:
Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "permute" is one way to...):
change by reversal; reverse; turn (change to the contrary)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "permute"):
map; represent (to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets))
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
permutation (act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group)
permutation (the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements)