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Permutation

noun

An event in which one thing is substituted for another. Synonyms: replacement, substitution, switch, transposition.

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

Complete change in character or condition.

Act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group.

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"Permutation" Quotes from Famous Books

... ensued, and having no doubt the national ideal of fairness well developed in their minds, they were careful each year to re-read the preceding papers before composing the current one, in order to see what it was usual to ask. As a result of this, in the course of a few years the recurrence and permutation of questions became almost calculable, and since the practical object of the teaching was to teach people not science, but how to write answers to these questions, the industry of Grant-earning assumed a form easily distinguished from any ...

— The New Machiavelli • Herbert George Wells

... higher development, sometimes exhibit changes of form by the permutation of vowels, but often an incorporated particle, whether suffix, affix, or infix, shows the etymology which often, also, exhibits the same objective conception that would be executed in gesture. There are, for instance, different forms for standing, ...

— Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes • Garrick Mallery

... blood-money and dismissed his bravo with commendation. Thereafter, being alone, he rubbed his hands—gladly thinking of what was in the way to happen in sequence to the permanent removal of this cat stumbling-block from his path. Although professionally accustomed to consider the possibilities of permutation, the known fact that petards at times are retroactive did not present itself ...

— Lords of the Housetops - Thirteen Cat Tales • Various

... from every permutation; What from itself heaven in itself receiveth Can be of this ...

— Dante's Purgatory • Dante