Commutability(n.) The quality of being commutable.
Commutable(a.) Capable of being commuted or interchanged.
Commutableness(n.) The quality of being commutable; interchangeableness.
Commutation(n.) A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.
Commutation(n.) The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.
Commutation(n.) 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.
Commutation(n.) 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.
Commutative(a.) Relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal.
Commutator(n.) A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction.
Commute(v. i.) To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.
Commute(v. i.) To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.
Commute(v. t.) 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.
Commuted(imp. & p. p.) of Commute
Commuter(n.) One who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling.
Commuting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commute
Words within commutations