A “permutation” (pur-myoo-TAY-shun) – from the Latin for “exchange” – is a complete change or transformation.
Example (as used by Don Hauptman today): “This French expression can be misspelled in multiple ways, and I suspect that I’ve seen every possible permutation.”
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