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.