commutation

[Fr. commutation, from Lat. commutatio = an exchange; commuto = to exchange.] IMG:content-0345.png:[blocks in formation] in a word, so great is the commutation, that the soul then hated only that which now only it loves, " -South: Serm. Elect.: An instrument which periodically interrupts an electric current. It is sometimes used as a name for a device for throwing into a circuit a greater or le amount of the force of a battery: and occasionally for a device for directing a current into several circuits in succe ion, the current being through only one circuit at a time. It seems to be used in the above senses by various standard electricians, but they all agree in one point in their compact 2. To make an arrangement to pay in gro , especially in traveling; as, to purchase a ticket for a certain number of rides at a reduced rate, in consideration of which it is agreed between the seller and the purchaser that the ticket shall be used within a specified time. com-müt-ěd, pa. par. or a. [COMMUTB.]