permutation
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7.3
- noun
- /ˌpɜr.mjuˈteɪ.ʃən/
- Specialized
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permutación
- There are myriad permutations and diversities in the identities of those who constitute this community.
- combinations and permutations
- possible permutations
- various permutations
You've just thought through all the possible permutations.
- You've just thought through all the possible permutations.
- I imagine that I, I apply a random permutation to all the pixels, a fixed random permutation.
- Or there may be other permutations as well.
- I kind of overcounted because there's permutation IJKJKIN.
- There is a way to construct the next super permutation from the previous one.
- And the four stories that we're we're reading today represent very interesting permutations on that platform.
- And this may happen also in, in, in any variety of, you know, permutations of relationship.
- It it's the inner of which we've been trying to find the outer, you know, in all these permutations in the past section.
- So now what comes to your to your brain is a fixed but random permutation of all the pixels.
Examples
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All right, we got 120 permutations in 10 minutes.
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These right here are all the permutations that begin with the number one.
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Hey guys, we're going to try every single permutation of remote locations.
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But the computers analyse every possible permutation.
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But when you average over all permutations, you get a constant.
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We've tried over a million permutations.
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There were four versions of each item (128 permutations in total).
Academic text (2018) -
Change after change after change was experimented with, those changes accumulating in endless combinations and permutations.
Fiction book (2002) -
Some psychologists have argued that our emotions correspond to the different permutations on the prisoner's dilemma.
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The mathematician explored every possible permutation of the dataset to find the best model.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
The arrangement of things in a neat sequence
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2.7
The way things are placed or organized in a place
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2.7
Arranging things in a particular sequence so they are easy to find
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3.4
A change in the order or position of things
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3.2
To put things in a different order
How Rearranged
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2.7
- Specialized
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7.3
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7.3
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3.4
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3.2
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2.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word permutation comes from the Latin parts per- 'completely' and mutare 'to change', the same 'mut' you see in mutation. In math and everyday use it became the name for each different way to change the order of items, so a 'permutation' is one possible arrangement.