Hypertext Webster Gateway: "commutative"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Commutative \Com*mut"a*tive\, a. [CF. F. commutatif.]
Relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal. --
{Com*mut"a*tive"ly}, adv.
Rich traders, from their success, are presumed . . . to
have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative
justice. --Burke.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
commutative
adj : (mathematics) of a binary operation; independent of order;
as in e.g. "a x b = b x a"
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