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s | permutation |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun permutation is

permutation.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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 ----