अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश

The change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the State; as, the commutation of a sentence of death to banishment or imprisonment.

A substitution, as of a less thing for a greater, esp. a substitution of one form of payment for another, or one payment for many, or a specific sum of money for conditional payments or allowances; as, commutation of tithes; commutation of fares; commutation of copyright; commutation of rations.

Relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal.

A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction.

To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.

To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.

To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares.

of Commute

One who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling.

of Commute

Mutual; reciprocal; united.

Bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down, as the seeds of milkweed.

Composed or made; -- with of.

Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.

Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose; as, a compact discourse.

An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract.

To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.

To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body.

Compact; pressed close; concentrated; firmly united.