Change the order or arrangement of:statistics may be sorted and permutated according to requirements...
Marker order was permutated after each marker was added.
In order to permutate the data we randomly reordered columns of stem nucleotides while maintaining the set of parentheses indicating the secondary structure.
In conducting such a test, the entry order of the trait data in the analysis was randomly permutated.
Origin
Late 19th century: regarded as a back-formation from permutation.