permutação
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin permūtātiōnem (“change; exchange”). By surface analysis, permutar + -ção.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: per‧mu‧ta‧ção
Noun edit
permutação f (plural permutações)
- (mathematics) permutation (one-to-one mapping)
- (combinatorics) permutation (ordering of a finite set of distinct elements)
- the act of permuting
- Synonyms: permuta, permutamento
- an exchange (act of trading, exchanging or swapping)
- (prosody) metathesis (transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word)
- Synonym: metátese
- (cytology) exchange of genetic material during meiosis
- Synonyms: entrecruzamento, permuta
Coordinate terms edit
- (in combinatorics): arranjo, combinação