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ˈmyu tə bəlmu·ta·ble
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Princeton's WordNet
mutable, changeableadjective
capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature
"a mutable substance"; "the mutable ways of fortune"; "mutable weather patterns"; "a mutable foreign policy"
Wiktionary
mutableadjective
Changeable; inclined to mutate.
mutableadjective
Having a value that is changeable during program execution.
Etymology: From mutabilis;.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Mutableadjective
Etymology: mutabilis, Latin.
Of things of the most accidental and mutable nature, accidental in their production, and mutable in their continuance, yet God’s prescience is as certain in him as the memory is or can be in us. Robert South, Sermons.
For the mutable rank-scented many,
Let them regard me, as I do not flatter. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.I saw thee mutable
Of fancy, fear’d lest one day thou would’st leave me. John Milton.
Wikipedia
mutable
In object-oriented and functional programming, an immutable object (unchangeable object) is an object whose state cannot be modified after it is created. This is in contrast to a mutable object (changeable object), which can be modified after it is created. In some cases, an object is considered immutable even if some internally used attributes change, but the object's state appears unchanging from an external point of view. For example, an object that uses memoization to cache the results of expensive computations could still be considered an immutable object. Strings and other concrete objects are typically expressed as immutable objects to improve readability and runtime efficiency in object-oriented programming. Immutable objects are also useful because they are inherently thread-safe. Other benefits are that they are simpler to understand and reason about and offer higher security than mutable objects.
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mutable
Mutable refers to something that is subject to change or alteration. It can be applied to physical objects, concepts, or conditions, and is often used in various scientific disciplines, coding and computing to detail elements that can be modified or manipulated.
Webster Dictionary
Mutableadjective
capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature
Mutableadjective
changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Mutable
mū′ta-bl, adj. that may be changed: subject to change: inconstant.—ns. Mutabil′ity, Mū′tableness, state or quality of being mutable.—adv. Mū′tably.—n. Mutan′dum, something to be altered:—pl. Mutan′da.—v.t. Mū′tate, to change a vowel-sound by the influence of a vowel in the following syllable.—n. Mutā′tion, act or process of changing a vowel through the influence of one in the next syllable—the German umlaut: change: succession.—adjs. Mū′tative, Mū′tātory, changing, mutable. [Fr.,—L. mutabilis—mutāre, -ātum, to change—movēre, motum, to move.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of mutable in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of mutable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of mutable in a Sentence
Because of advances in technology and medical science, people no longer understand the body as something natural that you're born with and live with. Instead, we understand it much more as something that is changeable and mutable, people have all sorts of surgical interventions, medical and cosmetic. It is even possible to change your gender. This means that we now see our body as something we have a responsibility to design and make. Even something as simple as a fitness routine or a tan indicates this attitude.
The internal effects of a mutable policy are [...] calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow.
Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.
Pisces are deeply empathetic and compassionate, as the mutable water sign, they are open to immersing themselves in new experiences or listening deeply to the opinions of others. You should keep all these traits in mind when choosing a birthday gift for your favorite Pisces.
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