字典
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 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.
To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.
To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.
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.
Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
Composed or made; -- with of.
Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.
Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose; as, a compact discourse.
To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body.
To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract.
of Compact