permute

American  

[per-myoot] / pərˈmyut /

verb (used with object)

permuted, permuting

1. to alter; change.

2. Mathematics. to subject to permutation.

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permute British  

/ pəˈmjuːt /

verb

1. to change the sequence of

2. maths to subject to permutation

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Other Word Forms

• permutability noun
• permutable adjective
• permutableness noun
• permutably adverb
• permuter noun

Etymology

Origin of permute

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

Example Sentences

“He reaches back to folklore but also speaks to this artistic moment, in which genre and its ancestral roots permute and enrich highly regarded capital-l Literature.”

From New York Times

He reaches back to folklore but also speaks to this artistic moment, in which genre and its ancestral roots permute and enrich highly regarded capital-l Literature.

From New York Times

Then we permuted the string of 0’s and 1’s representing the shot pattern 10,000 times and computed tk on each permutation.

From Scientific American

He discussed using a six-sided die to generate a random integer from 1 to 5, employing a modulo operation, and using a 16-bit source to randomly permute any list of up to 65,536 items.

From The New Yorker

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