Usually means: Exchange of one thing for another.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word commutation:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. commutation: Merriam-Webster
  2. commutation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. commutation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. commutation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. commutation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Commutation, commutation: Wordnik
  7. commutation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. commutation: Wiktionary
  9. commutation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. commutation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. commutation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Commutation, commutation: Dictionary.com
  13. Commutation (disambiguation), Commutation (law), Commutation (telemetry), Commutation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Commutation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. commutation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. commutation: Rhymezone
  17. Commutation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. commutation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. commutation: FreeDictionary.org
  20. commutation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. commutation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. commutation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Commutation (Comm.): Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. commutation: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. commutation: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. commutation: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. commutation: Finance-Glossary.com
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. Commutation (disambiguation), commutation: Legal dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Commutation (law), commutation: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (formal or archaic) Substitution of one thing for another; interchange.
noun:  Specifically, the substitution of one kind of payment for another, especially a switch to monetary payment from obligations of labour.
noun:  (law) The change to a lesser penalty or punishment by the State
noun:  (linguistics) Substitution, as a means of discriminating between phonemes.
noun:  (electronics) The reversal of an electric current.
noun:  (obsolete) A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.
noun:  (obsolete) The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.
noun:  (US, nonstandard) The process or habit of journeying to and from work on a regular basis; commuting.

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