Commutation :: Commutation (n.) A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.
Commutation :: Commutation (n.) The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.
Commutation :: Commutation (n.) The change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the State; as, the commutation of a sentence of death to banishment or imprisonment..
Commutation :: Commutation (n.) A substitution, as of a less thing for a greater, esp. a substitution of one form of payment for another, or one payment for many, or a specific sum of money for conditional payments or allowances; as, commutation of tithes; commutation of fares; commutation of copyright; commutation of rations..
Commutative :: Commutative (a.) Relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal.
Intermutation :: Intermutation (n.) Interchange; mutual or reciprocal change.
Mutation :: Mutation (n.) Change; alteration, either in form or qualities..
Permutation :: Permutation (n.) The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange.
Permutation :: Permutation (n.) The arrangement of any determinate number of things, as units, objects, letters, etc., in all possible orders, one after the other; -- called also alternation. Cf. Combination, n., 4..
Permutation :: Permutation (n.) Any one of such possible arrangements.
Transmutation :: Transmutation (n.) The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals..
Transmutation :: Transmutation (n.) The change or reduction of one figure or body into another of the same area or solidity, but of a different form, as of a triangle into a square..
Transmutation :: Transmutation (n.) The change of one species into another, which is assumed to take place in any development theory of life; transformism..
Transmutationist :: Transmutationist (n.) One who believes in the transmutation of metals or of species.