Commutate

Quick meaning: Commutate is a verb meaning (transitive, electronics) To reverse the direction of (a current).

Meaning

(transitive, electronics) To reverse the direction of (a current).

More Meanings

1. (transitive, electronics) To convert from being or using an alternating current into being or using a direct current.
2. (intransitive, mathematics) To commute; to be invariant under a reversal of the positions of operands.
3. (transitive, law) To remove or reduce the legal obligations or restrictions on
4. (transitive) To transform, especially into a reversed or opposite form.
5. (transitive, finance) To commute; to change one kind of payment into another, especially to convert from several installments to a single lumpsum payment.

Example Sentences

In line commutation, advantage of the a.c. supply going through zero value at every half-cycle is taken to commutate the thyristor.

Ah, commutation. I knew there was something else. This is where you can commutate your weekly payments into a lump sum and be rid of the “system”.

The match of two finite line segments in 2 dimensions requires 2 translations, 1 rotation, 1 scale transformation; the order is here important, and these operators cannot commutate.

Writers change the URIs as they compose because writers commutate and manipulate language to create a variety of rhetorical experiences that can be read at once, as overlapping, or as separate.

Word Forms

• commutates
• commutating
• commutated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unconvert, untransform, reverse, revert, offset, reenverse.

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