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- verb Present participle of
mutate . - adjective Causing or tending to cause
mutation . - adjective programming, of an object Having the ability to make changes to data other than its makeup.
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Examples
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The UK government, along with every other government worldwide (except Japan) has introduced no special measures for dealing with people arriving from Mexico despite the fact that the government's own Pandemic Flu procedures (based on Avian flu H5N1 mutating from the far east) say that travel restrictions and screenings of incoming flights should be introduced immediately to stop the spread of pandemic flu to this country.
Pandemic blindness - The shocking truth of a wasted 48 hours Norfolk Blogger 2009
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The UK government, along with every other government worldwide (except Japan) has introduced no special measures for dealing with people arriving from Mexico despite the fact that the government's own Pandemic Flu procedures (based on Avian flu H5N1 mutating from the far east) say that travel restrictions and screenings of incoming flights should be introduced immediately to stop the spread of pandemic flu to this country.
Archive 2009-04-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009
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The process of culling, replicating, and mutating is then repeated until an acceptably good design solution results.
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But as soon as you call a mutating method, you'd better get all of those pending non-mutating calls taken care of before you proceed with the mutating call.
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He's a psychopath, and he's in love with the idea of mutating into a Hulking supersoldier, and so he keeps on cat-and-mousing with Banner throughout the whole movie -- well, at least up till that final half hour -- as Banner searches for a cure and Blonsky searches for his own kind of twisted, gamma-irradiated anti-redemption ...
FlickFilosopher.com 2009
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To me this means autoboxing such that you can call a mutating sub with a constant.
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Old Power facility that had a Gamma lab, Banners' cells start mutating, meaning the Hulk will return sooner rather than later
Marvel Database - Recent changes [en] Horsepower 2010
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Old Power facility that had a Gamma lab, Banners' cells start mutating, meaning the Hulk will return sooner rather than later
Marvel Database - Recent changes [en] Horsepower 2010
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Old Power facility that had a Gamma lab, Banners' cells start mutating, meaning the Hulk will return sooner rather than later
Marvel Database - Recent changes [en] Horsepower 2010
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Old Power facility that had a Gamma lab, Banners' cells start mutating, meaning the Hulk will return sooner rather than later
Marvel Database - Recent changes [en] Horsepower 2010
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