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COMMUTABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does commutable mean?
• COMMUTABLE (adjective)
The adjective COMMUTABLE has 2 senses:
1. subject to alteration or change
2. capable of being exchanged for another or for something else that is equivalent
Familiarity information: COMMUTABLE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Subject to alteration or change
Context example:
the death sentence was commutable to life imprisonment
Similar:
alterable ((of the punishment ordered by a court) capable of being changed to one less severe)
convertible; transformable; translatable; transmutable (capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy)
Antonym:
incommutable (not subject to alteration or change)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Capable of being exchanged for another or for something else that is equivalent
Synonyms:
commutable; substitutable
Similar:
exchangeable (suitable to be exchanged)
Derivation:
commutability (exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable)
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