permute
Americanverb (used with object)
-
to alter; change.
-
Mathematics. to subject to permutation.
verb
-
to change the sequence of
-
maths to subject to permutation
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of permute
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin permūtāre to change throughout. See per-, mutate
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
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 Roget, Peter Mark
Pen in hand, I arrange, permute and combine.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
The expected test statistics are calculated by averaging over 50,000 permuted de novo mutation sets.
From Nature ● Jul. 21, 2014
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
The result, as in the case of the A proposition, is the converse by negation of the original proposition permuted.
From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph
The disjunctive proposition may be permuted as it stands without being reduced to the conjunctive form.
From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph
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 Stock, St. George William Joseph
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
