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Replacement vs Permutation - What's the difference?

replacement | permutation |

As nouns the difference between replacement and permutation

is that replacement is a person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute while permutation is permutation.

replacement

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
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    • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Kevin Darlin , title=West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Rovers lost keeper Robinson to a calf problem at half-time and his replacement Mark Bunn, making his Premier League debut, was immediately called into action - pushing away a vicious Peter Odemwingie drive at the near post.}}
  • The act of replacing something.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * overreplacement * subreplacement
    See also
    * spare part

    permutation

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia permutation) (en noun)
  • (mathematics) 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.
  • (mathematics, combinatorics) An ordering of a finite set of distinct elements.
    • There are six permutations of three elements, e.g. {abc, acb, bac, bca, cab, cba}.
  • (music) A transformation of a set's prime form, by applying one or more of certain operations, specifically, transposition, inversion, and retrograde.

    • Anagrams

    * importunate

    See also

    * (combinatorics) combination ----