Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Permutation \Per`mu*ta"tion\ (p[~e]r`m[-u]"t[=a]"sn[u^]n), n.
[L. permutatio: cf. F. permutation. See {Permute}.]
1. The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another;
mutual transference; interchange.
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The violent convulsions and permutations that have
been made in property. --Burke.
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2. (Math.)
(a) The arrangement of any determinate number of things,
as units, objects, letters, etc., in all possible
orders, one after the other; -- called also
{alternation}. Cf. {Combination}, n., 4.
(b) Any one of such possible arrangements.
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3. (Law) Barter; exchange.
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{Permutation lock}, a lock in which the parts can be
transposed or shifted, so as to require different
arrangements of the tumblers on different occasions of
unlocking.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
permutation
n 1: an event in which one thing is substituted for another;
"the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor
blood" [syn: {substitution}, {permutation},
{transposition}, {replacement}, {switch}]
2: the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of
elements
3: complete change in character or condition; "the
permutations...taking place in the physical world"- Henry
Miller
4: act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group
From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]:
Permutation /pɛrmuːtatsiːoːn/
permutation
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย
