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词汇 commutation
释义 commutation
noun[ U ]
 law specializeduk /ˌkɒm.jəˈteɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌkɑː.mjəˈteɪ.ʃən/
the act of changing a punishment to one that is less severe: 减刑
His execution became certain when the state board refused his request for commutation.州委员会拒绝了他的减刑请求,他被执行死刑已确定无疑。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not punishing & reducing punishment
absolve
amnesty
be off the hookidiom
clear of something
diplomatic immunity
discharge
escape
get away with murderidiom
get off
get off lightlyphrase
hook
impunity
let someone off
privilege
reprieve
royal pardon
scot-free
spare
unpunished
unsanctioned

commutation | Business English


commutation
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˌkɒmjʊˈteɪʃən/us
FINANCE, INSURANCE
the act of changing a financial agreement so that someone receives the whole of an amount of money immediately instead of receiving it at a later time in a series of smaller payments:
Unless the policyholders are in need of short-term cash, there is no benefit to them in these commutations.
LAW
the act of replacing a punishment with a less severe one:
The committee also examined factors a governor might consider for commutation of death sentences.
Another 12 commutation requests were denied.
the act of travelling regularly between your home and the place where you work:
They have developed an electric car for safe and sustainable commutation on city roads.
Join our Mail & Ride program to receive your monthly commutation ticket automatically by mail.
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Examples of commutation


commutation
As we know, cut-elimination involves many commutations of rules.
Here the commutation relations (1.1) translate into the compatibility condition that is satisfied by with respect to the labeling.
In this appendix, we prove two commutation results on abstract relations, which are folklore.
The main mechanism that increases order is commutation.
We have used a commutation rule in the first step of transformation, and a composition rule in the second.
We could apply it only if we were seeking to determine the moment in time when the commutation happens.
Indeed, minimal pair and commutation tests, techniques commonly used in contemporary sociolinguistic studies, generally confirm the truth of this conclusion.
Thus, the commutation arcing interference can be eliminated by using suitable bypass capacitors and properly isolating the electronic circuits dealing with sensitive feedback signals.
A crucial property of the translation presented here is that it enjoys a commutation property with respect to -reduction.
The commutation theorem is usually presented in the weaker following form, where => stands for one step of parallel reduction.
In a logical circuit, for instance, every commutation supposes a loss of charge and the dissipated power appears as an escape of heat.
Of course this supposes some commutation of the other logical connectives with provability; conjunction commutes with provability already in the classical case.
Then the following diagram commutes; this is a consequence of the commutation of diagram 17.
They include composition rules, commutation rules, and the rule of clashing.
The next step is to show that the flows ft and s satisfy the following commutation relation.
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