Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To interchange the substance of.
  • To exchange.
  • in mathematics, to subject to permutation or change of order. See permute, 3.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To carry out a permutation

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Examples

  • We create a primordial soup of components, with bars, and motors, and neurons, and we let them connect and permutate...

    Evolutionary Robotics and Battlestar Galactica: an Interview with Hod Lipson 2009

  • We create a primordial soup of components, with bars, and motors, and neurons, and we let them connect and permutate...

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • I was aware of the bad mortgages -- I just never imagined how they'd permutate the hurt on such a broad scale.

    December 2008 2008

  • HILTERMANN: Well, that's very hard to say, because the movement continues to permutate and to evolve into new forms.

    CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2006 2006

  • And what should we say now, as our school system is a dramatic illustration of how "separate and unequal" can permutate and survive over the years?

    Archive 2005-05-01 2005

  • And what should we say now, as our school system is a dramatic illustration of how "separate and unequal" can permutate and survive over the years?

    Your Right Hand Thief 2005

  • The executive bonuses will simply permutate into some other benefit that isn't as taxable.

    Center for American Progress Action Fund 2010

  • The executive bonuses will simply permutate into some other benefit that isn't as taxable.

    Center for American Progress Action Fund 2010

  • Trance tracks typically are composed of a nice build, where different melodies add and permutate with each other, eventually culminating into some kind of climax, where the bass is "dropped" and the song is driven by a combination of the beat and melody at the boldest.

    Anime Nano! 2010

  • The executive bonuses will simply permutate into some other benefit that isn't as taxable.

    Center for American Progress Action Fund 2010

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