mutable

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  1. adjective Capable of or subject to change or alteration.
  2. adjective Prone to frequent change; inconstant: mutable weather patterns.
  3. adjective Tending to undergo genetic mutation: a mutable organism; a mutable gene.

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  • How do we self-identify and how mutable is that identity? —  Sarah Jones as a one-woman global village
  • She was young and childish and mutable, her emotions like weather in spring. —  F ;SF - vol 092 issue 01 - January 1997
  • You were meant to be chaotic, mutable, and adaptive. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 03 - September 2003
  • Back to the Future 's past is highly mutable, and by definition, also fixable, thus the plot. —  Challenging Destiny #17
  • Only the head section of the list can be mutable, and only the tail section can be immutable. —  The Code Project Latest Articles
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  1. Middle English, from Latin mūtābilis, from mūtāre, to change; see mutate.

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  1. In older English muable; from Old French muable, French muable = Provencal mutable, mudable, = Spanish mudable = Portuguese mudavel = Italian mutabile, from Latin mutabilis, changeable, from mutare, change: see mute.
 

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