Permutation

Definition of Permutation

Per`mu`ta´tion
n.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.) 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.
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.

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