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permutation

noun as in change

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It’s a hokey setup, but Duchovny is spiritedly determined to work through the various permutations of this man-and-Mammon tale.

Rejewski applied the branch of mathematics devoted to permutations to the problem — an approach that would look obvious only after he used it.

That a story set in 19th-century England thrives in this country so ubiquitously, in so many permutations, remains a bit of a wonder.

This problem was equivalent to finding the probability that a random permutation of five people was also a derangement, meaning no one wound up in their own starting position.

Usually in order to find them you need to go fishing in the sea of permutations of different elements.

The Manson family was its most grotesque and dangerous permutation.

The economic reform wrought is largely of the nature of a permutation in the methods of conspicuous waste.

We may thus select the four coins in one hundred ways, and the four removed may be arranged by permutation in twenty-four ways.

This permutation is made very convenient by the sentences being printed in sections which may be moved about and combined at will.

Nevertheless, it is much easier to give the child a vivid impression of them by the permutation of parts than by explanation.

Reputable authority can be quoted in behalf of every possible permutation of doctrine.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to permutation, such as: alteration, modification, shift, and transformation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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