commutation in Portuguese
commutation in Portuguese is comutação — commutation means the act of swapping one thing for another.
commutation in Portuguese
comutação
(electronics) The reversal of an electric current.
What does "commutation" mean?
- noun The act of swapping one thing for another.
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noun The switch from paying in kind, such as through labour, to paying with money instead.
"Professor Postan has argued in favour of a rapid move towards commutation in the twelfth century which slackened or even went into reverse in the course of the thirteenth."
- noun (law) An official reduction of someone's punishment to something less severe.
- noun (linguistics) The swapping of one sound for another to show they are separate phonemes.
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- Professor Postan has argued in favour of a rapid move towards commutation in the twelfth century which slackened or even went into reverse in the course of the thirteenth.
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What is "commutation" in Portuguese?
"commutation" in Portuguese is comutação. commutation means: The act of swapping one thing for another.
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