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Permutation (medicine) and Descriptor (money)


Permutation (medicine)


permutation


1. The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange. "The violent convulsions and permutations that have been made in property." (Burke)

2. <mathematics> The arrangement of any determinate number of things, as units, objects, letters, etc, in all possible orders, one after the Other; called also alternation. Cf. Combination. Any one of such possible arrangements.

3. Barter; exchange. Permutation lock, a lock in which the parts can be transposed or shifted, so as to require different arrangements of the tumblers on different occasions of unlocking.

Origin: L. Permutatio: cf. F. Permutation. See Permute.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Descriptor (money)


Definition: [crh] A variable describing assets, used as an element of a risk index. For example, a Definition: k">volatility risk index, distinguishing high volatility assets from low volatility assets, could consist of several descriptors based on short term volatility, long term volatility, systematic and residual volatility, etc.