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UK
/mjˈuːtəbəl/
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[ US /ˈmjutəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈmjutəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature
a mutable foreign policy
mutable weather patterns
a mutable substance -
prone to frequent change; inconstant
the fickle and mutable nature of truth
the mutable ways of fortune -
tending to undergo genetic mutuation
It is likely, too, that the chromosomes of all eubacteria are as mutable as that of E. coli
How To Use mutable In A Sentence
- A 34-mile drive up the A68 road to Edinburgh does make this commutable.
- But if it shall be otherwise -- if they stubbornly, sullenly persist in cherishing and manifesting the spirit of treason, making their motto to read, Bound, but not broken, then let the severities of immutable justice be meted out to them: let them die the death. A Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln
- Thus to this congregation of excellent, undeceiving refuge, we pray that by the power of this prayer expressed from a heart filled with fervent devotion and humility, may the body, speech and mind of the sole of the Land of Snows, the supreme Ngawang Lobsang Tenzin Gyatso, be indestructible, unfluctuating and unceasing; may he live immutable for a hundred aeons, seated on a diamond throne, transcending decay and destruction. The Long Life Prayer for the 14th Dalai Lama
- a mutable substance
- Not always smoothly — Peirce himself parted ways with his fellow pragmatist William James, largely over the idea that truth was mutable, that is, what is "true" can become not true and even then true again, depending on the situation. Archive 2008-08-01
- And, too, because a man must know in his bones that his true spirit was as mutable as ivory or clay. THE BROKEN GOD
- This does a disservice to the immutable laws of the universe (many of them strange and counterintuitive). Times, Sunday Times
- The time-varying and incommutable character of the coefficient matrix of periodically time-varying linear systems are the bottleneck of the design for high precision direct integration methods.
- Page 340, footnote 3. _idem etiam_, etc.: he says also that Jupiter is the power of this law, eternal and immutable, which is the guide, so to speak, of our life and the principle of our duties; a law which he calls a fatal necessity, an eternal truth of future things. Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero
- However, the dynamic, mutable nature of open source often results in complexity.