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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

permutare

Pronunciation / Transliteration: per-mu-ta-re

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Permute/pərˈmjuːt/
verbCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #8500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Possiamo permutare gli elementi della matrice."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To change the order or arrangement of a set of items; to undergo permutation.

    "The algorithm can permute the sequence of numbers in various ways."
  2. 2

    To substitute one thing for another or exchange mutually.

    "They decided to permute their roles within the project team for the final phase."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin verb 'permutare', formed by 'per-' (thoroughly) and 'mutare' (to change). Entering Middle English in the 15th century, the term initially meant to exchange or barter, later evolving in mathematics and combinatorial logic to denote the rearrangement of items in a specific sequence.

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