Commute vs Commutant - What's the difference?
commute | commutant |
To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa .
(finance) To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments.
To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part.
(transitive, legal, criminology) To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.
To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.
* (rfdate) Jeremy Taylor:
To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate.
* Macaulay
(mathematics) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.
A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.
The route, time or distance of that journey.
(algebra, logic) The subset of all elements of a semigroup that commute with the elements of a given subset
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, passage=The basic mathematical entity to be used here in elucidating the different senses of superselection rules is a von Neumann algebra a concrete C * -algebra 6 of bounded linear operators acting on a Hilbert space 7 that is closed in the weak topology 8 or, equivalently, 9 that has the property that where “?” denotes the commutant .}}
As a verb commute
is .As a noun commutant is
(algebra|logic) the subset of all elements of a semigroup that commute with the elements of a given subset.commute
English
Verb
(commut)- I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.
- to commute for a year's travel over a route
- His prison sentence was commuted to probation.
- He thinks it unlawful to commute , and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind.
- to commute''' tithes; to '''commute charges for fares
- The utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading.
- A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute .