Commutation vs. Commute — What's the Difference?

The action or process of commuting a judicial sentence

To travel as a commuter

The process of commutating an electric current.

To make substitution or exchange.

The property of having a commutative relation.

To serve as a substitute.

A substitution, exchange, or interchange.

To pay in gross, usually at a reduced rate, rather than in individual payments.

The substitution of one kind of payment for another.

Mathematics & Logic To satisfy a commutative property. If a × b = b × a, then a commutes with b, regardless of whether the operation indicated by × is commutative.

The payment substituted.

To substitute (one thing for another); exchange.

The travel of a commuter.

To change (a penalty, debt, or payment) to a less severe one.

Conversion of alternating to unidirectional current.

An act or instance of commuting, especially the trip made by a commuter

Reversal of current direction.

To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen

(Law) Reduction of a penalty to a less severe one.

To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part.

Substitution of one thing for another; interchange.

To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.

Specifically, the substitution of one kind of payment for another, especially a switch to monetary payment from obligations of labour.

To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash

(legal) The change to a lesser penalty or punishment by the State

To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;

(linguistics) Substitution, as a means of discriminating between phonemes.

Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.

(electronics) The reversal of an electric current.

To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.

(obsolete) A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.

To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport.

(obsolete) The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.

(intransitive) To journey, to make a journey

(US) The process or habit of journeying to and from work on a regular basis; commuting.

A regular journey between two places, typically home and work.

A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.

The route, time or distance of that journey.

The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.

To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares.

The change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the State; as, the commutation of a sentence of death to banishment or imprisonment.

To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.

A substitution, as of a less thing for a greater, esp. a substitution of one form of payment for another, or one payment for many, or a specific sum of money for conditional payments or allowances; as, commutation of tithes; commutation of fares; commutation of copyright; commutation of rations.

To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.

Regular travel from a place of residence to a place where one's daily work is performed; commuting. Most often, such travel is performed between a suburb and a nearby city.

To travel regularly from a place of residence to another place, such as where one's daily work is performed. Often, such travel is performed between a suburb and a nearby city; as, to commute to work.

The travel of a commuter

Transpose and remain equal in value;

A warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one

Travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home

(law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law

Change the order or arrangement of;

The act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:

Exchange a penalty for a less severe one

Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category;