Usually means: Change the direction of current.
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  1. commutate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. commutate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. commutate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. commutate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. commutate: Vocabulary.com
  6. commutate: Wordnik
  7. commutate: Wiktionary
  8. commutate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. commutate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. commutate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. commutate: Dictionary.com
  12. commutate: Rhymezone
  13. commutate: Free Dictionary
  14. commutate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. commutate: Dictionary/thesaurus

(Note: See commutated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (commutate)

verb:  (transitive, electronics) To reverse the direction of (a current).
verb:  (transitive, electronics) To convert from being or using an alternating current into being or using a direct current.
verb:  (intransitive, mathematics) To commute; to be invariant under a reversal of the positions of operands.
verb:  (transitive, finance) To commute; to change one kind of payment into another, especially to convert from several installments to a single lumpsum payment.
verb:  (transitive, law) To remove or reduce the legal obligations or restrictions on
verb:  (transitive) To transform, especially into a reversed or opposite form.

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