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permutation

permutation • \per-myoo-TAY-shun\  • noun
Permutation is a formal word for any one of the many different ways or forms in which something exists or can be arranged. It can also refer to a major or fundamental change in something based primarily on rearrangement of its existing elements. Permutation is usually used in its plural form.

// Early permutations of the design look nothing like the final result.

// The system has gone through several permutations.

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Examples:
“Megadeth have weathered nearly all of metal’s generational permutations, only once deviating from their ... formula with 1999’s infamously confused country’n’industrial mish-mash, Risk.” — Eli Enis, Pitchfork, 26 Jan. 2026

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