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Definition of Commutation

1. Noun. The travel of a commuter.

2. Noun. A warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one.

3. Noun. (law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law.

4. Noun. The act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:. "He sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help"

Definition of Commutation

1. n. A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.

Definition of Commutation

1. Noun. (obsolete) A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation. ¹

2. Noun. (obsolete) The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange. ¹

3. Noun. (context: formal or archaic) Substitution of one thing for another; interchange. ¹

4. Noun. Specifically, the substitution of one kind of payment for another, especially a switch to monetary payment from obligations of labour. ¹

5. Noun. (legal) The change to a lesser penalty or punishment by the State ¹

6. Noun. (linguistics) Substitution, as a means of discriminating between phonemes. ¹

7. Noun. (electronics) The reversal of an electric current. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Commutation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Commutation

communizations communize communized communizes communizing commutabilities commutability commutable commutableness commutant

commutants commutate commutated commutates commutating commutation (current term) commutation ticket commutations commutative commutative algebra

commutative group commutative justice commutatively commutativeness commutativities commutativity commutator commutator length commutator lengths commutator subgroup

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