PERMUTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does permute mean? 

• PERMUTE (verb)
  The verb PERMUTE has 1 sense:

1. change the order or arrangement of

  Familiarity information: PERMUTE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERMUTE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they permute    ... he / she / it permutes   
Past simple: permuted   
Past participle: permuted   
-ing form: permuting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Change the order or arrangement of

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

commute; permute; transpose

Context example:

Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word

Hypernyms (to "permute" is one way to...):

change by reversal; reverse; turn (change to the contrary)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "permute"):

map; represent (to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

permutation (act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group)

permutation (the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements)

 Context examples 

Its virion contains linear double-stranded DNA, terminally redundant, and circularly permuted.

(Bacteriophage T4, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It is the largest of the coliphages and consists of double-stranded DNA, terminally redundant, and circularly permuted.

(Bacteriophage P1, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)