Used attributively to modify a noun, denoting relation to regular travel between home and work/study (e.g., "commuting students").
domicile-travailEmploi adjectival; se dit d’un trajet, d’une distance ou d’un horaire liés aux trajets réguliers entre le domicile et le travail ou les études.
Many people prefer a commuting distance of less than thirty minutes.
Beaucoup de gens préfèrent une distance domicile-travail de moins de trente minutes.
commutatifMathématiques, physique; se dit d’opérateurs ou d’objets pouvant être appliqués dans n’importe quel ordre sans changer le résultat.
In quantum mechanics, only commuting observables can be simultaneously measured with arbitrary precision.
En mécanique quantique, seuls les observables commutatifs peuvent être mesurés simultanément avec une précision arbitraire.
commuteverb
commuting
Gerund
commuted
Past Simple
commuted
Past Participle
commuting
Gerund
UK
/kəˈmjuːt/
US
/kəˈmjut/
faire la navetteSens courant pour les déplacements réguliers entre domicile et travail.
She commutes to the city every day for work.
Elle fait la navette jusqu’en ville tous les jours pour aller travailler.
The act of traveling regularly between one's place of residence and place of work or study.
Commuting can be exhausting, especially when the traffic is heavy.
commutinggerund / present participle
Relating to, undertaken during, or suitable for regular travel between one’s home and place of work or study.
Many people prefer a commuting distance of less than thirty minutes.
(mathematics, physics) Of two or more operators, matrices, or other entities: able to be applied in any order without changing the result; mutually commutative.
In quantum mechanics, only commuting observables can be simultaneously measured with arbitrary precision.
commuteverb
To travel regularly over some distance, as from a suburb into a city and back.
She commutes to the city every day for work.
To change a penalty to a less severe one.
The governor decided to commute his death sentence to life imprisonment.
To exchange one kind of payment or obligation for another.
He decided to commute his pension into a lump sum payment.
To have a commutative relationship; to yield the same result when the order of two operations or elements is reversed.
In linear algebra, matrices A and B commute if AB equals BA.