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commutare — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • commute verb To travel regularly between home and one's place of work or study.
  • reverse adj Opposite in position, direction, or order.
  • swap verb To exchange one thing for another.
  • switch noun A device used to turn an electrical circuit on or off.

Senses

commutare is used for these senses in English:

  • commute (intransitive, mathematics) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.

commute — full definition

  1. verb To travel regularly between home and one's place of work or study.
  2. noun The regular journey between home and work.
  3. verb To reduce a legal penalty or sentence to something less severe.

reverse — full definition

  1. adj Opposite in position, direction, or order.
  2. noun The opposite of something; the other side.
  3. noun The gear that makes a vehicle travel backward.
  4. verb To move backward, or to turn something to face the opposite way.

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