2. Adjective. Causing or tending to cause mutation. ¹
3. Adjective. (context: programming of an object) Having the ability to make changes to data other than its makeup. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mutating
1. mutate [v] - See also: mutate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mutating
Literary usage of Mutating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Native Writings in Massachusett by Ives Goddard, Kathleen Joan Bragdon (1988)
"|-uwi-| AI, forms verbs with general or indefinite object from TA stems; mutating |n|
is optionally replaced by |s|. Cf. 13 and 14. ..."
2. Fundamentals of Plant-breeding by John Merle Coulter (1914)
"of breeding, the search for mutating plants has advanced slowly, ... For example,
the very common "shepherd's purse" is evidently mutating just as freely as ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"It does not appear probable, in the case of the two species considered liens that
the segregation is due to the mutating character of one parent with its ..."
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