vaihtaminen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- commutation noun The act of swapping one thing for another.
- exchange noun The act of giving or swapping one thing for another.
- replacement noun A person or thing that takes the place of another.
- transposition noun The act of swapping the positions of two or more things.
Senses
vaihtaminen is used for these senses in English:
- commutation (obsolete) The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.
- exchange An act of exchanging or trading.
- replacement The act of replacing something.
- transposition (especially, _, mathematics) The act or process of transposing or interchanging.
commutation — full definition
- noun The act of swapping one thing for another.
- noun The switch from paying in kind, such as through labor, to paying with money instead.
- 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.
exchange — full definition
- noun The act of giving or swapping one thing for another.
- noun A place where trading takes place.
- noun A short way of saying 'telephone exchange'.
- noun An office that acts as a central point for an organization or service.
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