Permutation definition
The country's permutation into a modern democracy.
Permutations of gene order.
This permutation takes each element to the one following it, with the last mapped back to the first.
There are six permutations of three elements, e.g. {abc, acb, bac, bca, cab, cba}.
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Noun
Origin of permutation
- From Old French permutacion (French: permutation).
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