English Dictionary

commutation

IPA（発音記号）

/kɒmjuːˈteɪʃən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 廃用

(formal or archaic) Substitution of one thing for another; interchange.

日本語の意味

一つのものを他のものに置き換える行為 / 交換、相互の置き換え

The commutation of one obligation for another resolved the dispute between the parties.

一方の義務を別の義務に置き換えることで、当事者間の紛争は解決した。

意味（1）

(formal or archaic) Substitution of one thing for another; interchange.

意味（2）

Specifically, the substitution of one kind of payment for another, especially a switch to monetary payment from obligations of labour.

Professor Postan has argued in favour of a rapid move towards commutation in the twelfth century which slackened or even went into reverse in the course of the thirteenth.

意味（3）

(law) The change to a lesser penalty or punishment by the State

Monsieur the Marquis de Sade [was] now holed up in one of his châteaux while his wife worked for the commutation of a sentence passed on him recently for poisoning and buggery.

意味（4）

(linguistics) Substitution, as a means of discriminating between phonemes.

意味（5）

(electronics) The reversal of an electric current.

意味（6）

(obsolete) A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.

意味（7）

(obsolete) The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.

commutations （ plural ）