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/kəˈmjuːt/ · com·mute
verb
- To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate. The government decided to commute the death sentence to life imprisonment.
- To cash in; to lessen. She commuted her daily fares for a season ticket and saved a lot of money.
- Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result. The pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.
noun
- A regular journey to and from work or school. Her daily commute to the office takes about an hour.
Did you know? The word 'commute' has a fascinating connection to mathematics, particularly in the context of group theory, where commutative operations are a fundamental concept.