Noun
permutation
- 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?
- (mathematics) 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.
- (mathematics, combinatorics) An ordering of a finite set of distinct elements.
- There are six permutations of three elements, e.g. {abc, acb, bac, bca, cab, cba}.
- (music) A transformation of a set's prime form, by applying one or more of certain operations, specifically, transposition, inversion, and retrograde.
- French: permutation
- Italian: permutazione
- Portuguese: permutação
- Russian: пермутация
- Spanish: permutación
- French: permutation
- German: Permutation
- Italian: permutazione
- Portuguese: permutação
- Russian: перестано́вка
- Spanish: permutación
- Portuguese: permutação
- Russian: пермутация
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