permutational

Variant of permutation

noun

  1. any radical alteration; total transformation
    1. a complete rearrangement, esp. by interchanging
    2. Math. any of the total number of groupings, or subsets, into which a group, or set, of elements can be arranged in a particular order: the permutations of A, B, and C taken two at a time are AB, BA, AC, CA, BC, CB

Origin: ME permutacion < MFr < L permutatio < permutare: see permute

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