mutable — Englisches Wörterbuch

Adjektiv

1. Changeable, dynamic, evolutive; inclined to change, evolve, mutate.

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   Vndoughtedly constaunce is an honourable vertue, as inconstance is reprochefull and odious. Wherfore that man whiche is mutable for euerye occasyon, muste nedes often repente hym, and in moche repentance is nat only moche foly, but also great detriment: whiche euery wyse man wyll eschue if he can.

   For the mutable ranke-ſented Meynie, / Let them regard me, as I doe not flatter, / And therein behold themſelues.

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   Maſters commands come with a power reſiſtleſs / To ſuch as owe them abſolute ſubjection; / And for a life who will not change his purpoſe? / (So mutable are all the ways of men) / Yet this be ſure, in nothing to comply / Scandalous or forbidden in our Law.

   It is in vain to interpose the explanation that the sonship was mutable. The Broad School do not say so ; and in so far they are consistent, for they recognise no power to produce the mutation.

2. Having a value that is changeable during program execution.

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   • of a variable

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   A value of a mutable type can change. Objects and arrays are mutable: a JavaScript program can change the values of object properties and array elements. Numbers, booleans, null, and undefined are immutable.

3. Being one of the signs Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces, associated with adaptability, flexibility and sympathy.

   Synonyme

   bicorporeal

Substantiv

1. Something mutable; a variable or value that can change.

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   Hypothesis 6.14: Entropy levels within the social group may vary but must be maintained below maximum entropy on certain relevant variables (e.g., on the six globals and five mutables).

Adjektiv

1. capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature

   Synonyme

   changeable

   Antonyme

   immutable

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   a mutable substance

   mutable weather patterns

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   a mutable foreign policy

2. prone to frequent change; inconstant

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   the fickle and mutable nature of truth

   the mutable ways of fortune

3. tending to undergo genetic mutation

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   It is likely, too, that the chromosomes of all eubacteria are as mutable as that of E. coli