commute

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work

   there is standing room only on the high-speed commute

2. 2
   verb

   to exchange positions without a change in value

   These operators commute with each other

3. 3
   verb

   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

4. 4
   verb

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   verb

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

   I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.

7. 7
   verb

   To journey, to make a journey

   By one estimate, vultures either residing in or commuting into the Serengeti ecosystem during the annual migration—when 1.3 million white-bearded wildebeests shuffle between Kenya and Tanzania—historically consumed more meat than all mammalian carnivores in the Serengeti combined.

8. 8
   verb

   to exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category

Etymology

From commutation ticket, a pass on a railroad, streetcar line, etc. that permitted multiple rides over a period of time, eg, a month, for a single, commuted payment.