commute

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To exchange substantially

   To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen

   • to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum
   • to commute market rents for a premium
   • to commute daily fares for a season ticket
2. 2

   Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of…

   Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.

   • A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.
3. 3

   A regular journey between two places, typically home and work.

   • PS: The average commute time in the freewayless City of Vancouver is 27 minutes, while outside of the City of Vancouver the average commute time is 31 minutes.
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   1. 4

      The route, time or distance of that journey.

   2. 5

      To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.

      • I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.
      • My convention diary is unusually disjointed, since I was mingily commuting from Berkshire rather than pay £65 per night for a single room.
   3. 6

      To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport.

   4. 7

      To journey, to make a journey

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