Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive & transitive verb To undergo or cause to undergo mutation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To change. Specifically
- In phonetics, to change (a vowel-sound) by the influence of a vowel in the following syllable. See
mutation , 3. - To change; interchange.
- Changed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To undergo
mutation . - verb transitive To cause
mutation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb undergo mutation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Well, not so much die as in mutate into some horrible legislation monster.
Victory for gun-control advocates as Dems kill DC voting rights bill 2010
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“How Conficker will mutate is anyone's guess, say Ptylovany.
How to diagnose and defeat the dangerous Conficker worm 2009
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We have been talking about vaccines for some time, stockpiling them and also developing new vaccines, should this virus mutate, which is the big if that everyone's been talking about, also possibly mandatory evacuations -- this certainly was alarming to some people -- and even deploying the National Guard.
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Unless I allow the reproduction mechanism to mutate, which is a bit more work than I want to do right now…
Design Challenge Results: "Evolution is Smarter than You Are" - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Kirk watched his friend's expression mutate from puzzlement to annoyance to amazement.
Dreams of the Raven Carmen Carter 2000
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Kirk watched his friend's expression mutate from puzzlement to annoyance to amazement.
Dreams of the Raven Carmen Carter 2000
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Kirk watched his friend's expression mutate from puzzlement to annoyance to amazement.
Dreams of the Raven Carmen Carter 2000
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Kirk watched his friend's expression mutate from puzzlement to annoyance to amazement.
Dreams of the Raven Carmen Carter 2000
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Kirk watched his friend's expression mutate from puzzlement to annoyance to amazement.
Dreams of the Raven Carmen Carter 2000
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Column four is the expected number of trials that don't mutate, which is also the number of trials minus the expected number of mutations.
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