permute
Americanverb (used with object)
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to alter; change.
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Mathematics. to subject to permutation.
verb
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to change the sequence of
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maths to subject to permutation
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of permute
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin permūtāre to change throughout. See per-, mutate
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The stories collected here begin realistically enough, then permute into hallucinatory tales, as grim as anything in Grimm, but also grimly funny.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2015
V. interchange, exchange, counterchange†; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner, play at battledore and shuttlecock; retaliate &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
Pen in hand, I arrange, permute and combine.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
The expected test statistics are calculated by averaging over 50,000 permuted de novo mutation sets.
From Nature ● Jul. 21, 2014
Consider the product hπ1p1 hπ2p2 hπ3p3 ... which can be permuted in m! / π1!π2!π3! ... ways.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various
The result, as in the case of the A proposition, is the converse by negation of the original proposition permuted.
From Deductive Logic by St. George William Joseph Stock
When A and O have been permuted, they become respectively E and I, and, in this form, admit of simple conversion.
From Deductive Logic by St. George William Joseph Stock
We will try to explain the first permuted alphabet only, as a mere specimen, for the general reader is not quite prepared to comprehend the rest, and a hint for the scholar is sufficient.
From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various
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