Dictionary Check: mutable

"mutable" is a valid word!

Scrabble 11 points
Words with Friends 15 points

Definition

adjective

capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature

Example: "a mutable substance"
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adjective

prone to frequent change; inconstant

Example: "the fickle and mutable nature of truth"
adjective

tending to undergo genetic mutation

Example: "It is likely, too, that the chromosomes of all eubacteria are as mutable as that of E. coli"

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