"permutations" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to all the possible different ways in which a certain set of things can be arranged or combined. For example: "There were countless permutations of the data that we could explore in our analysis."
It is striking how many artists on the Meltdown bill, including singer Diamanda Galas and performance art maven Marina Abramovic, have worked together in various permutations.
In the same week that Mrs Cameron visited Neasden, the Duchess of Cornwall began an official trip to India with Prince Charles, gracefully donning a number of permutations on the traditional shalwar kameez, to great effect.
The permutations are endless, but if the answer is no, the dilemma remains: do you answer truthfully and risk losing the gig, or assure them of your proficiency and hope for the best?
Some permutations can probably be ruled out.
Companies routinely produce mission statements that are supposed to express their cultural DNA, but in fact simply list feel-good words in different permutations.
Mr Clegg says co-operation with the other parties will also depend on their commitment to a more redistributive tax system, more spending on poor schoolchildren, a greener economy and political reform, such as ditching the first-past-the-post voting model.The permutations do not end there.
Various permutations are still being aired.Ms Livni, foreign minister in the outgoing Kadima-led government, says she will not provide a fig-leaf for the harsher policies she believes would hurt the country.
But, like her, they were perplexed that a divine Creator should allow evil in the world, and especially intrigued by the permutations of free will and fate.Related items New fiction: O bloody period!Sep 7th 2000Fate had taken Ms Spark to Africa in 1937, to a miserable marriage from which she escaped six years later.
Fraud-detection software, however, can evaluate a vast number of permutations and deliver a fraud-probability score.
All coalition permutations are possible, as is another general election later in the year, which would then probably coincide with the presidential poll.Meanwhile Tomislav Nikolic, the SNS leader with his sights set on the primeministership, has been cagey about revealing what he would do over thorny issues like Kosovo.
They do so by encoding all possible permutations in the form of a small number of "qubits".
