Mutability

Mutability
Mutability Mu`ta*bil"i*ty, n. [L. mutabilitas: cf. F. mutabilit['e].] The quality of being mutable, or subject to change or alteration, either in form, state, or essential character; susceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation. [1913 Webster]

Plato confessed that the heavens and the frame of the world are corporeal, and therefore subject to mutability. --Stillingfleet. [1913 Webster]


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  • mutability — mutability. См. частота мутирования. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • mutability — index irregularity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • mutability — (n.) late 14c., tendency to change, inconstancy, from M.Fr. mutabilité, from L. mutabilitas, from mutabilis (see MUTABLE (Cf. mutable)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • mutability — noun The quality or state of being mutable. There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature …   Wiktionary

  • mutability — mutantiškumas statusas T sritis augalininkystė apibrėžtis Gebėjimas mutuoti. atitikmenys: angl. mutability rus. мутабильность …   Žemės ūkio augalų selekcijos ir sėklininkystės terminų žodynas

  • mutability — mutable ► ADJECTIVE ▪ liable to change. DERIVATIVES mutability noun. ORIGIN Latin mutabilis, from mutare to change …   English terms dictionary

  • Mutability (poem) — Mutability is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, half of which is quoted in his wife Mary Shelley s novel Frankenstein. Mutability We are the clouds that veil the midnight moon; How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver, Streaking the… …   Wikipedia

  • mutability — noun see mutable …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • mutability — See mutable. * * * …   Universalium

  • mutability — mu·ta·bil·i·ty .myüt ə bil ət ē n, pl ties 1) the quality or state of being mutable or capable of mutation 2) an instance of being mutable …   Medical dictionary

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