Noun: commuting ku'myoo-tingVerb: commute ku'myoot
- Travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home
"She commutes two hours each day to her job in the city"
- Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
"The governor commuted his sentence to life imprisonment";
- change, exchange, convert
- Exchange a penalty for a less severe one
"The judge commuted his sentence from life in prison to 25 years";
- convert, exchange
- Change the order or arrangement of
"The mathematician commuted the terms in the equation";
- permute, transpose, permutate [rare]
- (mathematics) exchange positions without a change in value
"These operators commute with each other";
- transpose
Type of: alter, change, jaunt, modify, replace, reverse, travel, traveling [US], travelling [Brit, Cdn], trip, turn
Encyclopedia: Commuting
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