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| com·mute [ kə myt ] (past and past participle com·mut·ed, present participle com·mut·ing, 3rd person present singular com·mutes) |
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1. intransitive verb travel regularly between places: to travel regularly from one place to another, especially between home and work
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2. transitive and intransitive verb replace with something else: to be changed or substituted, or change or substitute one thing for another, e.g. one form of payment for another
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3. intransitive verb be replacement: to compensate or act as a substitute
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4. transitive verb criminal law reduce severity of penalty: to reduce a legal sentence to a less severe one
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5. transitive verb electricity
Same as commutate
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6. intransitive verb mathematics give same result with different order: to give the same mathematical result irrespective of the order in which two or more quantities are placed, as in addition but not subtraction
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| [15th century. < Latin commutare "change altogether" < mutare "to change"] |
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  com·mut·a·ble adjective |
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