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Commutative property

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A binary operation * on a set S is commutative if, for all x and y in S, x * y  =  y * x.

Examples of commutative binary operations include addition and multiplication of complex numbers, addition of vectors, and intersection and union of sets.

A commutative group is usually called an "Abelian" group.

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