permutation

1. 1.

   an event in which one thing is substituted for another

   “the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood”

   Synonymssubstitutiontranspositionreplacementswitch

   Broadervariation
2. 2.

   the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements

   Broadermathematical process
3. 3.

   complete change in character or condition

   “the permutations...taking place in the physical world”

   Broadertransformation
4. 4.

   act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group

   Broaderreordering

Other forms of permutation

plural

permutations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about permutation

What does permutation mean?

permutation means "an event in which one thing is substituted for another". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in permutation?

permutation has 4 syllables: per-mu-ta-tion. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /ˌpɝmjuˈteɪʃən/.

What is another word for permutation?

Close synonyms include substitution, transposition, replacement, switch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is permutation a common word?

permutation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with permutation?

89 words rhyme with permutation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.