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  • verb Present participle of permute.

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Examples

  • This dynamic -- technology permuting culture -- is pervasive throughout our collective experience.

    Judith Acosta: How To Defend Yourself Against The Media’s Fear Tactics Judith Acosta 2011

  • This dynamic -- technology permuting culture -- is pervasive throughout our collective experience.

    Judith Acosta: How To Defend Yourself Against The Media’s Fear Tactics Judith Acosta 2011

  • Gentzen showed that instances of the rule of cut can be eliminated from derivations by permuting them upward until they reach points at which the derivation starts.

    Chores 2009

  • This property has profound effects on cut elimination: in permuting cut up, Gentzen had to restore the original contexts (the Γ's and Δ's) through weakenings and contractions.

    Chores 2009

  • You can taste the fruits of ecstatic Kabbalah fairly quickly if you devote even a single night to it -- but you do need to devote the whole night, permuting letters and allowing the mind to free itself up.

    Jay Michaelson: An Introduction To Kabbalah, Part 4: Kabbalah As A Spiritual Practice 2009

  • Notationally, these steps amount to padding predicate symbols with extra arguments, omitting some arguments, as well as permuting and regrouping the arguments.

    Combinatory Logic Bimbó, Katalin 2008

  • Consider a social welfare function which is defined on distributions of income and is symmetrical (i.e., permuting the income of two individuals leaves social welfare unchanged).

    Economics and Economic Justice Fleurbaey, Marc 2008

  • With an infinite horizon, it is essentially impossible to combine the Pareto criterion and anonymity (permuting the utilities of some generations does not change social welfare) in a fully satisfactory way, even when utilities are perfectly comparable.

    Economics and Economic Justice Fleurbaey, Marc 2008

  • The mutations are made by permuting keys in the layout, with a 50% chance of swapping two keys, a 25% chance of swapping three, a 12.5% chance of four, and so on.

    Boing Boing: June 30, 2002 - July 6, 2002 Archives 2002

  • We may also bring it, if we please, into Barbara, by permuting the major premiss once more, so as to obtain the contrapositive of the original --

    Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

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