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Plural
permutations
1
a complete change in character, condition, or arrangement
- The city underwent a permutation after the new government took power.
- His personality seemed a permutation from his former self.
- The landscape was a dramatic permutation following the storm.
- Technological advances led to a permutation of traditional practices.
- The plot's twists represented a permutation in the story's direction.
2
(mathematics) a rearrangement of a set of elements in a specific order or sequence
- The number of permutations of three distinct objects is six.
- Permutations are often used in probability calculations.
- Combinatorics relies on permutations to count arrangements without repetition.
- A permutation of the letters ABC could be BAC or CAB.
- Permutations are used to count different ways to arrange objects.