Thesaurus: permutation

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1. n. The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange.
2. n. The arrangement of any determinate number of things, as units, objects, letters, etc., in all possible orders, one after the other; -- called also alternation. Cf. Combination, n., 4.
3. n. Any one of such possible arrangements.
4. n. Barter; exchange.
5. n. an event in which one thing is substituted for another
6. n. the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements
7. n. complete change in character or condition
8. n. act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group
9. 1. The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange. The violent convulsions and permutations that have been made in property. Burke. 2. (Math.) (a) The arrangement of any determinate number of things, as units, objects, letters, etc., in all possible orders, one after the other; -- called also alternation. Cf. Combination, n., 4. (b) Any one of such possible arrangements. 3. (Law) Barter; exchange. Permutation lock, a lock in which the parts can be transposed or shifted, so as to require different arrangements of the tumblers on different occasions of unlocking.
10. Barter; exchange. Permutation lock, a lock in which the partscan be transposed or shifted, so as to require different arrangementsof the tumblers on different occasions of unlocking.
11. n:100 n. the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements n. complete change in character or condition n. act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group