Associations to the word «Permutation»

Wiktionary

PERMUTATION, noun. One of the ways something exists, or the ways a set of objects can be ordered.
PERMUTATION, noun. (mathematics) A one-to-one mapping from a finite set to itself.
PERMUTATION, noun. (mathematics) (combinatorics) An ordering of a finite set of distinct elements.
PERMUTATION, noun. (music) A transformation of a set's prime form, by applying one or more of certain operations, specifically, transposition, inversion, and retrograde.
PERMUTATION GROUP, noun. (group theory) a group whose elements represent permutation of a set
PERMUTATION LOCK, noun. (dated) combination lock

Dictionary definition

PERMUTATION, noun. An event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood".
PERMUTATION, noun. The act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements.
PERMUTATION, noun. Complete change in character or condition; "the permutations...taking place in the physical world"- Henry Miller.
PERMUTATION, noun. Act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats