Meaning & use
permute
To change the arrangement or order of a set of elements, especially in mathematics or computing.
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The program permutes the list of letters to generate every possible word combination.
Students learned to permute the digits of a number to find all valid codes.
A note on using this word
Permute is closely tied to the noun permutation and appears mostly in mathematical, statistical, or computational contexts.
Words with a similar meaning
rearrangereorder
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