Rearranges

Rearranges is the third-person singular present tense form of the verb rearrange. It denotes the act of changing the position, order, or arrangement of something, often involving a deliberate modification of layout, sequence, or structure. The word combines the prefix re- (again, anew) with arrange, and has long been used in everyday and technical language to describe altering how things are placed or ordered.

In everyday usage, rearranges describes actions such as moving furniture, reorganizing a desk, or altering a schedule or plan. In mathematics and computer science, a rearrangement refers to a permutation or reordering of elements within a set or sequence, resulting in a different arrangement of those elements. In this sense, the term can be used to discuss properties that persist or change under reordering.

In biology and chemistry, rearrangements describe structural changes in molecules or genomes. Chromosome rearrangements involve reordering segments of DNA, while in organic chemistry, rearrangement reactions such as the Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement or other skeletal migrations cause a carbon framework to reorganize, producing a new connectivity. In these fields, rearranges often imply a transformation that occurs under specific conditions or catalysts.

See also rearrange, rearrangement, permutation. Related ideas include reordering, restructuring, and transformation.