permute

[ per-myoot ]

/ pərˈmyut /

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verb (used with object), per·mut·ed, per·mut·ing.

to alter; change.

Mathematics. to subject to permutation.

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Origin of permute

1350–1400; Middle English <Latin permūtāre to change throughout. See per-, mutate

OTHER WORDS FROM permute

per·mut·a·ble, adjectiveper·mut·a·bil·i·ty, per·mut·a·ble·ness, nounper·mut·a·bly, adverbper·mut·er, noun

Words nearby permute

permittivity, permonosulfuric acid, permutate, permutation, permutation group, permute, Pernambuco, pernancy, pernicious, pernicious anaemia, pernicious anemia

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How to use permute in a sentence

You were then asked how many ways you could permute the distinct values p, q and r inside the function f without changing its value.
Can You Outthink The Sphinx?|Zach Wissner-Gross (riddlercolumn@gmail.com)|April 2, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
When mechanisms evolve that suppress the potential for disruptive within-group selection, then between-group selection becomes the dominant evolutionary force and the group permutes into a superorganism.
I Have Come to Bury Ayn Rand - Issue 98: Mind|David Sloan Wilson|March 24, 2021|Nautilus
As if Margulis’s proposal for nucleated cells was not radical enough, the concept of groups permuting into organisms was generalized by two theoretical biologists, John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary in the 1990s.
I Have Come to Bury Ayn Rand - Issue 98: Mind|David Sloan Wilson|March 24, 2021|Nautilus
En latin, cette lettre so permute frquemment avec le d: attulit pour adtulit.
The Catholic World. Volume II; Numbers 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.|E. Rameur

British Dictionary definitions for permute

permute

/ (pəˈmjuːt) /

verb (tr)

to change the sequence of

maths to subject to permutation

Derived forms of permute

permutable, adjectivepermutability or permutableness, nounpermutably, adverb

Word Origin for permute

C14: from Latin permūtāre, from per- + mūtāre to change, alter

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