verb
- to change the order or arrangement of a set of things, especially in a systematic way
Usage: mathematics; formal
Examples
- The computer program can permute the letters to find all possible anagrams.
- In mathematics, we permute the elements of a set to study different arrangements.
- The researcher decided to permute the order of questions in the survey.
- You can permute these four numbers to create 24 different sequences.
- The algorithm will permute the data to test various combinations.
- Students learned to permute variables in their algebra equations.