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Definition of Mutable

1. Adjective. Capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature. "A mutable foreign policy"

Definition of Mutable

1. a. Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature.

Definition of Mutable

1. Adjective. Changeable; inclined to mutate. ¹

2. Adjective. (programming of a variable) Having a value that is changeable during program execution. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mutable

1. capable of change [adj] : MUTABLY [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mutable

Literary usage of Mutable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ancient Poetry and Romances of Spain by John Bowring (1824)
"ALL IS mutable. " No me alegran los placeres." IN pleasure there's no charm to me— No thoughts of gloom with sadness dwell, For both are mutable. ..."

2. A Grammar of the Hebrew Language by George Bush (1839)
"lables and vowels, it becomes necessary to advert to an important distinction of the vowels as mutable and immutable. In denominating, however, certain ..."

3. Hebrew Grammar with a Copious Syntax and a Praxis by Moses Stuart (1821)
"Vowels mutable. The mutable vowels, then, to which all the changes are ... 2. stand in the place of long Vowels, they are mutable in the same manner as the ..."

4. English Synonymes Explained, in Alphabetical Order by George Crabb (1816)
"mutable, from the Latin muto to change, is the same as changeable. ... Changeable is said of persons or things ; mutable is said of things only : human ..."

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