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How to pronounce permutation in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms replacement, substitution, switch, transposition
Type of variation, fluctuation
Type Words
Type of reordering
Derivation permute
Type Words
Type of transformation, translation


the permutations...taking place in the physical world.
Type Words
Type of operation, mathematical operation, mathematical process
Derivation permute

Examples of permutation

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I cannot work out what the winning permutation of tickets is, so I wait to hear.
From the independent.co.uk
The first class of groups to undergo a systematic study was permutation groups.
From the en.wikipedia.org
One says that H is strongly isomorphic to G if the permutation is the identity.
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But this project is a permutation of the words long-form, journalism, and website.
From the techcrunch.com
Tempting as a permutation may be, however, it can leave you in an even worse mess.
From the iftomm2003.com
That old story is a little off topic but within the scope of this permutation.
From the iftomm2003.com
A new permutation, it seems, in a year pockmarked by variations on a tragic theme.
From the time.com
In classical music, Bach used the symmetry concepts of permutation and invariance.
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They take a board, a chip, and some memory, and slap it into a familiar permutation.
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More examples
  • Substitution: an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"
  • The act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements
  • Complete change in character or condition; "the permutations...taking place in the physical world"- Henry Miller
  • Act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group
  • In mathematics, the notion of permutation is used with several slightly different meanings, all related to the act of permuting (rearranging in an ordered fashion) objects or values. Informally, a permutation of a set of values is an arrangement of those values into a particular order. ...
  • Permutation is the third album by Amon Tobin and second under his own name. It was released in 1998, just over a year after Bricolage. ...
  • In policy debate, a permutation is an argument made by the 2AC to test the competition of a counterplan or kritik testing the comparative desirability of the plan and all or part of the counterplan or kritik against the counterplan or kritik by itself. ...
  • "Snow ((Hey Oh))" is a single by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, originally released on the band's double album Stadium Arcadium on May 9, 2006. Vocalist Anthony Kiedis states that the track is "about surviving, starting fresh. ...
  • A one-to-one mapping from a finite set to itself; An ordering of a finite set of distinct elements; A transformation of a set's prime form, by applying one or more of certain operations, specifically, transposition, inversion, and retrograde