This is great. I made my comment in a rush, the thing I was trying to describe wasn’t a single permutation, but the concept. Turns out you made that easy for me too: “the ways you can line up a group of things”.
When all we have are the most used words, it can be easier to show what something is by showing what it isn't instead. :)
“it is not the notes you play that are important but the notes you do not play”. I don’t think the up goer understands jazz but I think it gets the concept