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COMMUTABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does commutability mean?
• COMMUTABILITY (noun)
The noun COMMUTABILITY has 2 senses:
1. exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable
2. the quality of being commutable
Familiarity information: COMMUTABILITY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
commutability; replaceability; substitutability
Hypernyms ("commutability" is a kind of...):
exchangeability; fungibility; interchangeability; interchangeableness (the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange)
Derivation:
commutable (capable of being exchanged for another or for something else that is equivalent)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being commutable
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
commutability; transmutability
Hypernyms ("commutability" is a kind of...):
changeability; changeableness (the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change)
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