Both Uses of
commute
in
The Hidden Oracle
- "Just once I'd like an easy commute," Percy grumbled.
p. 50.7commute = travel between home and work
- And the commute was quite easy now that the Labyrinth is back in service.
p. 169.5 *commute = regular journey
Definitions:
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(1)
(commute as in: commute from New Jersey) regular travel -- such as between home and work
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(2)
(commute as in: commute the sentence) to exchange a penalty for one that is less severe
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Other rare meanings include- Changing one thing for another as in: "It was once believed that the philosopher's stone would commute lead to gold."
- In math, the commutative property indicates that the order in which two numbers are added or multiplied does not change their sum or product (2+3=3+2) and (4×7=7×4).