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Commute, commutation or commutative may refer to:
- Commuting, the process of travelling between a place of residence and a place of work
Mathematics
- Commutative property, a property of a mathematical operation whose result is insensitive to the order of its arguments
- Equivariant map, a function whose composition with another function has the commutative property
- Commutative diagram, a graphical description of commuting compositions of arrows in a mathematical category
- Commutative semigroup, commutative monoid, abelian group, and commutative ring, algebraic structures with the commutative property
- Commuting matrices, sets of matrices whose products do not depend on the order of multiplication
Science and technology
- Commutation (electric), the application of currents or voltages to different electrical motor phases so as to produce optimum motor torque
- Commutation (neurophysiology), how certain neural circuits in the brain exhibit noncommutativity
- Commutation (telemetry), a form of time-division multiplexing
- Commutation, a synonym for packet switching in computer networking and telecommunications
Other uses
- Commutation of sentence, a reduction in severity of punishment
- Commutation, or cash option, in which a member of a pension scheme gives up part or all of their pension in exchange for a lump sum payment
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