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It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, and it is desirable to perpetuate that sameness, yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language. |
PERMUTA'TION, n. [L. permutatio,permuto; per and muto, to change.]
The act of permuting; exchange of the thing
for another; mutual transference; interchange.
The violent convulsions and permutations that have been made in property. Burke. The
arrangement of any determinate number of things, as units, objects,
letters, etc., in all possible orders, one after the other; -- called
also alternation. Cf. Combination,
Barter; exchange.
Permutation lock, a lock in which the parts can be transposed or shifted, so as to require different arrangements of the tumblers on different occasions of unlocking. | ||||||||