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Noun
/ˌkämyəˈtāSHən/,
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Action or the process of commuting a judicial sentence,
  1. Action or the process of commuting a judicial sentence

  2. The conversion of a legal obligation or entitlement into another form, e.g., the replacement of an annuity or series of payments by a single payment

  3. The process of commutating an electric current

  4. The property of having a commutative relation

  1. the travel of a commuter
  2. a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one
  3. (law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law
  4. substitution: the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: "he sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help"
  5. (commutate) reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current
  6. Commutation of sentence involves the reduction of legal penalties, especially in terms of imprisonment. Unlike a pardon, a commutation does not nullify the conviction and is often conditional. ...
  7. In mathematics an operation is commutative if changing the order of the operation does not change the end result. It is a fundamental property of many binary operations, and many mathematical proofs depend on it. ...
  8. In neurophysiology, commutation is the process of how the brain's neural circuits exhibit non-commutativity. Physiologist Douglas B. ...
  9. (Commutant) In algebra, the commutant of a subset S of a semigroup (such as an algebra or a group) A is the subset S′ of elements of A commuting with every element of S. In other words,
  10. immediate payment of a single sum to extinguish pension entitlement, either because the scheme member’s pension is of a trivial value, or because the scheme member has a life expectancy of less than 12 months.
  11. controlling the currents or voltages in the motor phases in an effort to optimize motor performance; can be achieved mechanically or electrically.
  12. The reduction of a sentence, as from death to life imprisonment.
  13. In the event of the termination of this contract, the Reinsurer shall be released from all further liability to the company for all loss and allocated loss expense not finally settled by the company as of the date of termination. ...
  14. A change in length or severity of a penalty or punishment.
  15. The replacement of tithes in kind with annual monetary payments.
  16. Stipulation adopted by both the Union and Confederate governments which allowed certain draftees to pay a fee in order to avoid military service.  Because the fee was higher than the average worker's annual salary, this provision angered less-wealthy citizens on both sides of the war.
  17. whereby an individual presently incarcerated and serving an active sentence has their sentence commuted or reduced by any number of years, months, or days, or to make parole eligible, or to time served which would release the individual immediately.
  18. Agreement to swap future insurer claims liabilities into a  cash payment to the buyer
  19. Conversion of the value of labor services into a monetary payment.
  20. A chief executive of a government has the right to substitute a less severe punishment of the defendant than that imposed by the judicial branch.
  21. the conversion of the whole or part of an income stream such as a pension or annuity back to a lump sum. The payment is treated as an eligible termination payment if the income stream was originally bought with superannuation money.
  22. Commutation is a condition that can be added to a structured settlement annuity so if the annuitant dies, the beneficiary gets a lump sum payment instead of the continuation of the annuity payments. ...
  23. Refers to the action of steering currents or voltage to the proper motor phases to produce optimum motor torque. In brush type motors, commutation is done electromechanically via the brushes and commutator. ...
  24. This term refers to withdrawing a lump sum from a pension/annuity.