Dictionary Entry
permutation
permutation is a 11-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 8 senses
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- 1noun
The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
Any one of such possible arrangements.
- 4noun
Barter; exchange.
- 5noun
act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group
- 6noun
complete change in character or condition- Henry Miller
"the permutations...taking place in the physical world"
- 7noun
the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements
- 8noun
an event in which one thing is substituted for another
"the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"
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