commutative: Meaning and Definition of

com•mu•ta•tive

1. of or pertaining to commutation, exchange, substitution, or interchange.
2. commutative law for multiplication.
1. (of a binary operation) having the property that one term operating on a second is equal to the second operating on the first, as a × b = b × a.
2. having reference to this property:commutative law for multiplication.