permute

[ per-myoot ]

verb (used with object)

, per·mut·ed, per·mut·ing.

1. to alter; change.
2. Mathematics. to subject to permutation.

permute

/ pəˈmjuːt /

verb

1. to change the sequence of
2. maths to subject to permutation

Derived Forms

• perˌmutaˈbility, noun
• perˈmutable, adjective
• perˈmutably, adverb

Other Words From

• per·muta·ble adjective
• per·muta·bili·ty per·muta·ble·ness noun
• per·muta·bly adverb
• per·muter noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of permute¹

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin permūtāre to change throughout. See per-, mutate

Word History and Origins

Origin of permute¹

C14: from Latin permūtāre, from per- + mūtāre to change, alter

Example Sentences

“He reaches back to folklore but also speaks to this artistic moment, in which genre and its ancestral roots permute and enrich highly regarded capital-l Literature.”

From New York Times

He reaches back to folklore but also speaks to this artistic moment, in which genre and its ancestral roots permute and enrich highly regarded capital-l Literature.

From New York Times

Then we permuted the string of 0’s and 1’s representing the shot pattern 10,000 times and computed tk on each permutation.

From Scientific American

He discussed using a six-sided die to generate a random integer from 1 to 5, employing a modulo operation, and using a 16-bit source to randomly permute any list of up to 65,536 items.

From The New Yorker

The stories collected here begin realistically enough, then permute into hallucinatory tales, as grim as anything in Grimm, but also grimly funny.

From Washington Post