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permutation

noun
  1. One of the ways something exists, or the ways a set of objects can be ordered.

    "Which permutation for completing our agenda items makes the most sense?"

  2. A one-to-one mapping from a finite set to itself.

    "This permutation takes each element to the one following it, with the last mapped back to the first."

  3. An ordering of a finite set of distinct elements.

    "There are six permutations of three elements, e.g. {abc, acb, bac, bca, cab, cba}."

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