Yahoo Canada Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   permutation

   /ˌpəːmjʊˈteɪʃn/

   noun

   • 1. each of several possible ways in which a set or number of things can be ordered or arranged: "his thoughts raced ahead to fifty different permutations of what he must do"
   • ▪ the action of changing the arrangement, especially the linear order, of a set of items.
   • ▪ a selection of a specified number of matches in a football pool.

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘exchange, barter’): via Old French from Latin permutatio(n-), from the verb permutare ‘change completely’ (see permute).

   Derivatives

   • 1. permutational adjective

   Scrabble Points: 15

   • P

     3

   • E

     1

   • R

     1

   • M

     3

   • U

     1

   • T

     1

   • A

     1

   • T

     1

   • I

     1

   • O

     1

   • N

     1

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points