permutation

Nouns

  • (n) an event in which one thing is substituted for another
    • the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood
    substitution, switch, transposition, replacement,
  • (n) the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements
  • (n) complete change in character or condition
    • "the permutations...taking place in the physical world"- Henry Miller
  • (n) act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group

Synonyms

substitution switch transposition replacement

Words of close approximity