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permutations

noun

Meaning

  1. One of the ways something exists, or the ways a set of objects can be ordered.
  2. A one-to-one mapping from a finite set to itself.
  3. An ordering of a finite set of distinct elements.
  4. A transformation of a set's prime form, by applying one or more of certain operations, specifically, transposition, inversion, and retrograde.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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