Definitions for permutation

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permutation per·mu·ta·tion

Spelling: [pur-myoo-tey-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌpɜr myʊˈteɪ ʃən/

Permutation is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 1291 anagrams from letters in permutation (aeimnoprttu).

Definitions for permutation

noun

1. the act of permuting or permutating; alteration; transformation.
2. Mathematics. the act of changing the order of elements arranged in a particular order, as abc into acb, bac, etc., or of arranging a number of elements in groups made up of equal numbers of the elements in different orders, as a and b in ab and ba; a one-to-one transformation of a set with a finite number of elements. any of the resulting arrangements or groups. Compare combination (def 8b).

Origin of permutation

1325-75; Middle English permutacioun (Middle French permutacion) Latin permūtātiōn- (stem of permūtātiō) thoroughgoing change. See per-, mutat

Examples for permutation

Nevertheless, it is much easier to give the child a vivid impression of them by the permutation of parts than by explanation.

This indicates the distinction between the permutation of letters and the transition of letters.

He is not a permutation and combination of old elements, transferred through the parents.

The first permutation makes the second seem very probable, although I cannot as yet conceive a means of realizing it.

It is clear how very different the results would become by the permutation and combination of these diverse factors.

Let this be learned to perfection, backwards and forwards, or by permutation of words, and repeated the next day.

We may thus select the four coins in one hundred ways, and the four removed may be arranged by permutation in twenty-four ways.

What artifice can we then employ to provoke this second permutation?

The economic reform wrought is largely of the nature of a permutation in the methods of conspicuous waste.

This permutation is made very convenient by the sentences being printed in sections which may be moved about and combined at will.