perm vs permutation

perm

noun
  • A permutation. 

  • Permission 

  • A combination of outcomes (not a permutation) that a gambler bets on in the football pools. 

verb
  • To give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc. 

permutation

noun
  • An ordering of a finite set of distinct elements. 

  • A transformation of a set's prime form, by applying one or more of certain operations, specifically, transposition, inversion, and retrograde. 

  • One of the ways something exists, or the ways a set of objects can be ordered. 

  • A one-to-one mapping from a finite set to itself. 

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