Commutative

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  • adjective. Relating to, involving, or characterized by substitution, interchange, or exchange.
  • adjective. Independent of order. Used of a logical or mathematical operation that combines objects or sets of objects two at a time. If a × b = b × a, the operation indicated by × is commutative.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Relating to exchange; interchangeable; mutual: as, commutative justice (that is, justice which is mutually done and received).
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal.
  • adjective. having the property of commutativity.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Such that the order in which the operands are taken does not affect their image under the operation.
  • adjective. Having a commutative operation.
  • adjective. Such that any two sequences of morphisms with the same initial and final positions compose to the same morphism.
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  • adjective. (of a binary operation) independent of order; as in e.g.
    • Word Usage
    "The market is subject to the principles of so-called commutative justice, which regulates the relations of giving and receiving between parties to a transaction."
    Equivalent
    independent  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Idaho  apperceptive  associative  band-pass  bilinear  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Abelian  abelian  interchangeable  reciprocal  
    variant
    commutativity  
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