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mutation
English
Alternative forms
- mutat. (abbreviation)
Etymology
Late 14th century, from Latin mutationem, both directly and via Old French mutacion, form of Latin m?t? (“I move, I change, I vary”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mju?te???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
mutation (countable and uncountable, plural mutations)
- Any alteration or change.
- (genetics) Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material.
- A mutant.
- (linguistics) An alteration a particular sound of a word, especially the initial consonant, which is triggered by the word's morphological or syntactic context and not by its phonological context.
- (rare, collective noun) A group of thrushes.
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- Mount Tai
French
Etymology
From Middle French mutation, from Old French mutacion, borrowed from Latin mutatio, mutationem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /my.ta.sj??/
Noun
mutation f (plural mutations)
- substitution
- mutation
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Turkish: mutasyon
Further reading
- “mutation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French mutacion, borrowed from Latin mutatio, mutationem.
Noun
mutation f (plural mutations)
- change, alteration, mutation
Related terms
- muter
Descendants
- French: mutation
mutation From the web:
- what mutation causes sickle cell anemia
- what mutation causes cystic fibrosis
- what mutation causes down syndrome
- what mutation causes huntington's disease
- what mutation is sickle cell anemia
- what mutation causes cancer
- what mutation causes color blindness
- what mutation causes albinism
mutator
English
Etymology
mutate +? -or
Noun
mutator (plural mutators)
- That which causes mutation or change.
- In object-oriented programming, the mutator function changes the value of the field that gives its name.
Synonyms
- setter
Antonyms
- accessor
Latin
Verb
m?t?tor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of m?t?
- third-person singular future passive imperative of m?t?
References
- mutator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mutator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- mutator in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Romanian
Etymology
From French mutateur.
Noun
mutator n (plural mutatoare)
- mutator
Declension
mutator From the web:
- what's mutator phenotype
- what is mutator method in java
- what is mutator function in c++
- what are mutators and accessors give examples
- what is mutator in laravel
- what is mutator gene
- what is mutator method in python
- what is mutator method
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