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Rarepermutation
The correct spelling is permutation.
How to pronounce permutation
noun
Say it like: Per-mut-ash-on
The correct spelling is permutation. One of the ways something exists, or the ways a set of objects can be ordered. For example: "Which permutation for completing our agenda items makes the most sense?"
Usage Examples
“Which permutation for completing our agenda items makes the most sense?”
“This permutation takes each element to the one following it, with the last mapped back to the first.”
“There are six permutations of three elements, e.g. {abc, acb, bac, bca, cab, cba}.”
Definition
noun
- 1.One of the ways something exists, or the ways a set of objects can be ordered.
- 2.A one-to-one mapping from a finite set to itself.
- 3.An ordering of a finite set of distinct elements.
- 4.A transformation of a set's prime form, by applying one or more of certain operations, specifically, transposition, inversion, and retrograde.
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