Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
subject to alteration or change;
- Example: "the death sentence was commutable to life imprisonment"2.
capable of being exchanged for another or for something else that is equivalent;
[syn: commutable, substitutable]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Commutable \Com*mut"a*ble\, a. [L. commutabilis.]
Capable of being commuted or interchanged.
[1913 Webster]
The predicate and subject are not commutable.
--Whately.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
commutable
adj 1: subject to alteration or change; "the death sentence was
commutable to life imprisonment" [ant: incommutable]
2: capable of being exchanged for another or for something else
that is equivalent [syn: commutable, substitutable]