permute

See also: permuté

English

Etymology

From Middle English permuten, from Old French permuter, from Latin permūtāre.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pə(ɹ)ˈmjuːt/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Verb

permute (third-person singular simple present permutes, present participle permuting, simple past and past participle permuted)

  1. (transitive) To change the order of.
    Synonym: (less common) permutate
    to permute the data
  2. (transitive, mathematics) To make a permutation of.

Derived terms

Translations

References

  1. ^ “permūten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ “permute”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

French

Pronunciation

Verb

permute

  1. inflection of permuter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /perˈmu.te/
  • Rhymes: -ute
  • Hyphenation: per‧mù‧te

Noun

permute f

  1. plural of permuta

Anagrams

Portuguese

Verb

permute

  1. inflection of permutar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peɾˈmute/ [peɾˈmu.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ute
  • Syllabification: per‧mu‧te

Verb

permute

  1. inflection of permutar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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