COMMUTATIVE
commutative
Adjective
- Such that the order in which the operands are taken does not affect their image under the operation.
- ''Addition on the real numbers is commutative because for any real numbers <math>s,t</math>, it is true that <math>s+t=t+s</math>.
- Having a commutative operation.
- Such that any two sequences of morphisms with the same initial and final positions compose to the same morphism.
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