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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Permutation \Per`mu*ta"tion\, n. [L. permutatio: cf F. permutation. See {Permute}.] 1. The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange. The violent convulsions and permutations that have been made in property. --Burke. 2. (Math.) a The arrangement of any determinate number of things as units, objects, letters, etc., in all possible orders one after the other -- called also {alternation}. Cf {Combination}, n., 4. b Any one of such possible arrangements. 3. (Law) Barter; exchange. {Permutation lock}, a lock in which the parts can be transposed or shifted, so as to require different arrangements of the tumblers on different occasions of unlocking. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Alternation \Al`ter*na"tion\, n. [L. alternatio: cf F. alternation.] 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear. 2. (Math.) Permutation. 3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. --Mason. {Alternation of generation}. See under {Generation}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: alternation n 1: being regularly exchangeable 2: successive change from one thing or state to another and back again
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