commutative

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: com=mu=ta=tive

CIDE DICTIONARY

commutative, a. [CF. F. commutatif.].

•  Relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal.  [1913 Webster]

  "Rich traders, from their success, are presumed . . . to have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice."  [1913 Webster]
•  having the property of commutativity.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

commutative, adj.
1 relating to or involving substitution.
2 Math. unchanged in result by the interchange of the order of quantities.

Etymology

F commutatif or med.L commutativus (as COMMUTE)

ROGET THESAURUS

commutative

Interchange

N interchange, exchange, commutation, permutation, intermutation, reciprocation, transposition, rearrangement, shuffling, alternation, reciprocity, castling (at chess), hocus-pocus, interchangeableness, interchangeability, recombination, combination, barter, tit for tat, cross fire, battledore and shuttlecock, quid pro quo, interchanged, reciprocal, mutual, commutative, interchangeable, intercurrent, combinatorial, recombinant, in exchange, vice versa, mutatis mutandis, backwards and forwards, by turns, turn and turn about, each in his turn, everyone in his turn.