Mutable

Quick meaning: Mutable is an adjective meaning Changeable, dynamic, evolutive; inclined to change, evolve, mutate.

Meaning

Changeable, dynamic, evolutive; inclined to change, evolve, mutate.

More Meanings

1. (programming, of a variable) Having a value that is changeable during program execution.
2. (astrology) Being one of the signs Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces, associated with adaptability, flexibility and sympathy.
3. Something mutable; a variable or value that can change.

Example Sentences

For the mutable ranke-ſented Meynie, / Let them regard me, as I doe not flatter, / And therein behold themſelues.

Hypothesis 6.14: Entropy levels within the social group may vary but must be maintained below maximum entropy on certain relevant variables (e.g., on the six globals and five mutables).

It is in vain to interpose the explanation that the sonship was mutable. The Broad School do not say so ; and in so far they are consistent, for they recognise no power to produce the mutation.

A value of a mutable type can change. Objects and arrays are mutable: a JavaScript program can change the values of object properties and array elements. Numbers, booleans, null, and undefined are immutable.

Word Forms

• mutables

Synonyms for mutable

Depending on context, synonyms include alterable, changeable, dynamic, editable, inconstant, modifiable.

Antonyms for mutable

Common opposites include immutable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include changeable, alterable, versatile, versable, evolvable, mutatable.

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