com mutant (komutant)

[L. commu tan(t-)s, ppr. of commutare, change: see com mute.] In alg., an oblong block of figures, denoting the sum of a number of products, each consisting of as many factors as the block has rows, and each factor being formed by compounding as umbræ the constituents in one row, the different terms being due to permutation with change of sign, in every po ible way, of the constituents of every column after the first. commutation (kom-u-ta's hon), n. [F. com mutation = Pr. commutatio = Sp. conmutacion = Pg. commutação = It. com mut azione, 3. A number of people a ociated together by the fact of residence in the same locality, or of tions; a village, township, or municipality. vanced - by in his "Republic," by Thomas More in his "Utopia," and in recent times by many writers and have not infrequently been carried into execution on a small scale, as in the Oneida Community. See commu nity. Communism , in its ordinary signification, is a system or form of common life in which the right of private or family property is abolished by law, mutual consent, or vow. To this community of goods may be added the disappearance of family life. Woolsey, Communism and Socialism, p. 1. Communism is the name that has been given to the schemes of social innovation which have for their starting point the attempted overthrow of the institution of private property. Encyc. Brit., VI. 211. The machinery of Communism , like existing social ma The sympathetic or social feelings are not so strong between different communities as between individuals of the same community . With them [the Slavic nations] the rule of the freedom of acquests has been le strictly observed than in other European countries, and with them, accordingly, the community continues in its fullest vigor. W. E. Hearn , Aryan Household, p. 240. A great many of the manors now or formerly existing represent ancient communities in which, little by little, the authority of the community was engro ed by the most considerable man in it, until he became the lord, and the other landholders became his dependents. F. Pollock, Land Laws, p. 41. and defects of existing human nature will generate in the one the same evils as in the other. H. Spencer, Man vs. State, p. 41. 2. Communalism. [An improper use.] communist (kom'u-nist), n. [= D. communist = G. Dan. kommunist, All communists without exception propose that the people as a whole, or some particular division of the people, as a village, or commune, should own all the means production-land, houses, factories, railroads, canals, etc.; that production should be carried on in common; and that officers, selected in one way or another, should distribute among the inhabitants the fruits of their labor. R. T. Ely , French and German Socialism, p. 35. Discordant theories range from the doctrines of the communist, who would overturn our social structures, to those of the timid, half-hearted believers in our government, who wish to go back to restraints and powers exerted by the monarchs of Europe. N. A. Rev. , CXXVII. 360. 2. An advocate of communalism; a member of a commune; a communalist. - Bible Communist. See Perfectionist.