commuting
verb
- 1
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
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.”
verb
- 1
To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
“I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.”
- 2
To journey, to make a journey
noun
- 1
Travel between home and workplace
- 2
Travel by public transportation such as by jeepney
adjective
- 1
Causing, or involved in commutation
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