Usually means: Arrangement of items in order.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. permutation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. permutation: Merriam-Webster
  3. permutation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. permutation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. permutation: Collins English Dictionary
  6. permutation: Vocabulary.com
  7. Permutation, permutation: Wordnik
  8. permutation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. permutation: Wiktionary
  10. permutation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. permutation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. permutation: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Permutation, permutation: Dictionary.com
  14. permutation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Permutation (Amon Tobin album), Permutation (disambiguation), Permutation (music), Permutation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Permutation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. permutation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. permutation: Rhymezone
  19. permutation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. permutation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. permutation: FreeDictionary.org
  22. permutation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. permutation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Permutation: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. permutation: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. permutation: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  3. permutation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Permutation: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Statistics (in particular, re-randomisation statistics) (No longer online)
  4. permutation: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  5. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (permutation)

▸ noun:  One of the ways something exists, or the ways a set of objects can be ordered.
▸ noun:  (mathematics) A one-to-one mapping from a finite set to itself.
▸ noun:  (mathematics, combinatorics) An ordering of a finite set of distinct elements.
▸ noun:  (music) A transformation of a set's prime form, by applying one or more of certain operations, specifically, transposition, inversion, and retrograde.

Similar:
transposition, switch, substitution, replacement, pairing, alternation, sequencing, alternativity, eutaxy, seriality, more...

Opposite:
combination, arrangement, order

Phrases:
Permutation matrix, permutation group, Permutation test, permutation tests, Cyclic permutation, more...

Adjectives:
cyclic, random, possible, circular, odd, even, initial, arbitrary, different, particular, next

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Similar:
transposition, switch, substitution, replacement, pairing, alternation, sequencing, alternativity, eutaxy, seriality, more...

Opposite:
combination, arrangement, order

Phrases:
Permutation matrix, permutation group, Permutation test, permutation tests, Cyclic permutation, Random permutation, permutation groups, permutation matrices, circular permutation, even permutation, more...

Adjectives:
cyclic, random, possible, circular, odd, even, initial, arbitrary, different, particular, next

Colors:
    red,     blue,     green,     yellow,     orange, more...



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