Feminine

permutação

Meaning

  1. (feminine) permutation (one-to-one mapping)
  2. (feminine) permutation (ordering of a finite set of distinct elements)
  3. (feminine) the act of permuting
  4. (feminine) an exchange (act of trading, exchanging or swapping)
  5. (feminine) metathesis (transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word)
  6. (feminine) exchange of genetic material during meiosis

Synonyms

Pronounced as (IPA)
/peʁ.mu.taˈsɐ̃w̃/
Etymology

In summary

Learned borrowing from Latin permūtātiōnem (“change; exchange”). By surface analysis, permutar + -ção.

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