Commutation vs. Commute

Commutationnoun

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

Commuteverb

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

‘to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum; to commute market rents for a premium, to commute daily fares for a season ticket’;

Commutationnoun

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

Commuteverb

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

‘to commute the daily toll for a year's pass’;

Commutationnoun

Substitution of one thing for another; interchange.

Commuteverb

To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.

‘His prison sentence was commuted to probation.’;

Commutationnoun

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

Commuteverb

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

Commutationnoun

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

Commuteverb

To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;

Commutationnoun

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

Commuteverb

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

‘A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.’;

Commutationnoun

(electronics) The reversal of an electric current.

Commuteverb

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

‘I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.’;

Commutationnoun

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

Commuteverb

(intransitive) To journey, to make a journey

Commutationnoun

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

‘So great is the commutation that the soul then hated only that which now only it loves.’;

Commutenoun

A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.

Commutationnoun

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

‘The use of money is . . . that of saving the commutation of more bulky commodities.’;

Commutenoun

The route, time or distance of that journey.

Commutationnoun

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.

‘Suits are allowable in the spiritual courts for money agreed to be given as a commutation for penance.’;

Commuteverb

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 sounds water and fire, being once annexed to those two elements, it was certainly more natural to call beings participating of the first "watery", and the last "fiery", than to commute the terms, and call them by the reverse.’; ‘The utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading.’;

Commutationnoun

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.

Commuteverb

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

‘He . . . thinks it unlawful to commute, and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind.’;

Commutationnoun

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.

Commuteverb

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

Commutationnoun

the travel of a commuter

Commuteverb

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.

Commutationnoun

a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one

Commuteverb

transpose and remain equal in value;

‘These operators commute with each other’;

Commutationnoun

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

Commuteverb

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

Commutationnoun

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

‘he sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help’;

Commuteverb

change the order or arrangement of;

‘Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word’;

Commutationnoun

the action or process of commuting a judicial sentence

‘a commutation of her sentence’;

Commuteverb

exchange a penalty for a less severe one

Commutationnoun

the conversion of a legal obligation or entitlement into another form, e.g. the replacement of an annuity or series of payments by a single payment

‘making a one-off lump sum in commutation of your pension rights’; ‘the commutation of dues into money rents’;

Commuteverb

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

‘Could you convert my dollars into pounds?’; ‘He changed his name’; ‘convert centimeters into inches’; ‘convert holdings into shares’;

Commutationnoun

the process of commutating an electric current.

Commutationnoun

the property of having a commutative relation.