permutation
One of the ways something exists, or the ways a set of objects can be ordered.
Noun
- One of the ways something exists, or the ways a set of objects can be ordered.
- Which permutation for completing our agenda items makes the most sense?
- A one-to-one mapping from a finite set to itself.
- This permutation takes each element to the one following it, with the last mapped back to the first.
- An ordering of a finite set of distinct elements.
- There are six permutations of three elements, e.g. {abc, acb, bac, bca, cab, cba}.
- A transformation of a set's prime form, by applying one or more of certain operations, specifically, transposition, inversion, and retrograde.
Origin
From Middle English permutacioun, permutacyoun, from Old French permutacïon, promutatïon and Medieval Latin permūtātiōnem, accusative of permūtātiō. Morphologically permute + -ation.
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multipermutation permutational permutation box permutation group permutation lock simsun permutation subpermutation superpermutation vexillary permutation