permutación — meaning in English

English meaning

• permutation noun One of the ways something exists, or the ways a set of objects can be ordered.
• swap verb To exchange one thing for another.

Senses

permutación is used for these senses in English:

• permute (transitive, mathematics) To make a permutation of.
• swap An exchange of two comparable things.

permutation — full definition

1. noun One of the ways something exists, or the ways a set of objects can be ordered.
2. noun A one-to-one mapping from a finite set to itself.
3. noun An ordering of a finite set of distinct elements.
4. noun A transformation of a set's prime form, by applying one or more of certain operations, specifically, transposition, inversion, and retrograde.

swap — full definition

1. verb To exchange one thing for another.
2. noun An exchange of two comparable things.
3. noun A financial contract in which two parties exchange streams of payments, such as interest rates.

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