definição e significado de commute

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commute (v. intr.)

1.exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category"Could you convert my dollars into pounds?" "He changed his name" "convert centimeters into inches" "convert holdings into shares"

2.exchange a penalty for a less severe one

3.change the order or arrangement of"Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word"

4.exchange positions without a change in value"These operators commute with each other"

5.travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home

commute (n.)

1.a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work"there is standing room only on the high-speed commute"

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Merriam Webster

CommuteCom*mute" (kŏm*mūt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Commuted; p. pr. & vb. n. Commuting.] [L. commutare, -mutatum; com- + mutare to change. See Mutation.]
1. To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares.

The sounds water and fire, being once annexed to those two elements, it was certainly more natural to call beings participating of the first “watery”, and the last “fiery”, than to commute the terms, and call them by the reverse. J. Harris

The utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading. Macaulay.

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Commute

Look up commute, commutation, commutative, or commutativity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Commute, commutation or commutative may refer to:

Commuting, the process of travelling between a place of residence and a place of work
Commutative property, a property of a mathematical operation whose result is insensitive to the order of its arguments
- Equivariant map, a function whose composition with another function has the commutative property
- Commutative diagram, a graphical description of commuting compositions of arrows in a mathematical category
- Commutative semigroup, commutative monoid, abelian group, and commutative ring, algebraic structures with the commutative property
- Commuting matrices, sets of matrices whose products do not depend on the order of multiplication
Commutation of sentence, a reduction in severity of punishment
Commutation (neurophysiology), how certain neural circuits in the brain exhibit noncommutativity
Tonggeun, a class of train in Korea which translates to "Commuter"
Commutation, a synonym for switching in computer networking and telecommunications
Commutation, the action of applying currents or voltages to the proper electrical motor phases so as to produce optimum motor torque at a motor's shaft. See Commutator (electric).
Commutation, where a member of a pension scheme gives up part or their entire pension in exchange for an immediate lump sum payment. It is also known as a cash option.

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