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symmetric group

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A group consisting of all possible permutations of a given number of items.

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  • noun mathematics A group whose elements are precisely all of the bijections of some set with itself and whose operation is composition of those bijections.

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