Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Relating to, involving, or characterized by substitution, interchange, or exchange.
- adj. Independent of order. Used of a logical or mathematical operation that combines objects or sets of objects two at a time. If a × b = b × a, the operation indicated by × is commutative.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Such that the order in which the operands are taken does not affect their image under the operation.
- adj. Having a commutative operation.
- adj. Such that any two sequences of morphisms with the same initial and final positions compose to the same morphism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal.
- adj. having the property of commutativity.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Relating to exchange; interchangeable; mutual: as, commutative justice (that is, justice which is mutually done and received).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. (of a binary operation) independent of order; as in e.g.
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Examples
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The market is subject to the principles of so-called commutative justice, which regulates the relations of giving and receiving between parties to a transaction.
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This is justice in exchange, or what Aristotle called commutative or corrective justice.
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Among equals, it is called commutative justice, the which alone is here in question.
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
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Hence all these actions belong to the one same species of justice, namely commutative justice.
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The rational numbers form what mathematicians call a commutative group under addition.
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Write-a-Thon is Wednesday, November 5th! commutative - abelian groups are also known as commutative groups
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30 That justice called commutative commands sacred respect for the division of possessions and forbids invasion of others' rights through the exceeding of the limits of one's own property; but the duty of owners to use their property only in a right way does not come under this type of justice, but under other virtues, obligations of which "cannot be enforced by legal action."
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I flunked out of University three times, by which time I had a commutative average of about 53%.
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This is a classic problem - human beings expect every rational statement to be commutative.
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Maybe it's not a commutative property: Lean — Berlioz, but not necessarily Berlioz — Lean.
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