Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To change the order of.
- v. Mathematics To subject to permutation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To interchange.
- To exchange; barter.
- In mathematics, to subject to permutation or change of order.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To change the order of something.
- v. transitive, mathematics To make a permutation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To interchange; to transfer reciprocally.
- v. obsolete To exchange; to barter; to traffic.
WordNet 3.0
- v. change the order or arrangement of
Etymologies
- Middle English permuten, from Old French permuter, from Latin permūtāre : per-, per- + mūtāre, to change; see mei-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The reason we sorted each value returned by the "permute" subroutine was so that each value would be in order.”
“permute" subroutine actually contains multiple scalar pseudo-lists.”
“For all its spectacular qualities, the installation steers the viewer to pace himself, to reflect on the concept of number, as the broad spacing of the lamps compels one to swivel to see how combinations of one, two and three elements permute and progress within each room — whether these fluorescent tubes are fixed along the walls at their centers or their corners.”
“Although we permute and combine ideas in the imagination to form complex ideas of things we haven't experienced, Hume is adamant that our creative powers extend no farther than “the materials afforded us by the senses and experience.””
“My desire to permute compositions of matter did not seem to fit with the physical chemistry being done at Harvard at that time.”
“In a possible world inhabited by an evil demon (or permute this, if you wish, into a brain-in-a-vat case), the demon creates non-veridical perceptions of physical objects in people's minds.”
“Then permute the utility of every even period with the next one.”
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“What you are looking at is the statistical equivalent of a perfect hand of cards (think of all the other ways you could permute the parts, none of which would work) - except that we know how it came about: by the gradual-istic crane of natural selection.”
“I had thought a contrepet must simply permute the existing sounds.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘permute’.
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Extrude
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
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common words
mei- root words, a changing mixture
common, communion, community, meatus, conge, permeate, irremeable, mew, molt, mutate, commute, permute and 87 more...
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