Usually means: Operation measuring non-commutativity of elements.
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  1. commutator: Merriam-Webster
  2. commutator: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. commutator: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. commutator: Collins English Dictionary
  5. commutator: Vocabulary.com
  6. commutator: Wordnik
  7. commutator: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. commutator: Wiktionary
  9. commutator: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. commutator: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. commutator: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. commutator: Dictionary.com
  13. Commutator (electric), Commutator (phyiscs), Commutator (ring theory), Commutator: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Commutator: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. commutator: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. commutator: Rhymezone
  17. Commutator: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. commutator: FreeDictionary.org
  19. commutator: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. commutator: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Commutator (cryptology), Commutator (group theory), commutator: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Commutator: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. commutator, commutator: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. commutator: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Reliance Electric motor terms (No longer online)

(Note: See commutators as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (commutator)

noun:  An electrical switch, in a generator or motor, that periodically reverses the direction of an electric current.
noun:  (group theory) A binary map in a given group G, given by [g, h] = ghg⁻¹h⁻¹, where g and h are elements of G, which yields the group's identity if and only if the group operation commutes for g and h.
noun:  (ring theory) A binary map in a given ring R, given by [a, b] = ab − ba, where a and b are elements of R, which yields the ring's zero element if and only if the multiplication operation commutes for a and b.

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