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mutable

/myoo-tuh-buhl/US // ˈmyu tə bəl //UK // (ˈmjuːtəbəl) //

可变,可变的,易变的,可变性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : liable or subject to change or alteration.
    • : given to changing; constantly changing; fickle or inconstant: the mutable ways of fortune.
    • : Computers. of or noting an object having properties whose values can change while the object itself maintains a unique identity.

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Examples

  • After just two episodes, it’s hard to get a sense of how mutable The Problem’s format will be.

  • Warnecke, however, is skeptical about inferring phylogenetic relationships from viral sequences, which are notoriously mutable.

  • I knew vaguely that the history was slow and unremarkable during centuries of rural village life, then tumultuous and mutable as the area was enveloped by the burgeoning city.

  • In McAfee’s work, formal portraits become as mutable and dynamic as makeshift cellphone footage.

  • Vortices can be remarkably stable, and yet they are also surprisingly mutable.

  • The mutable-Earth sign of Virgo is about negotiating virtue and vice.

  • The comic Flip Wilson used to use “The devil made me do it” as an endlessly mutable punch line.

  • Yet however sweet the hours, they pass away, and it is not much memory can save from the mutable, happy days of love.

  • One goes to the marriage bed, another to the grave; and all is mutable, uncertain, and transitory.

  • His face was irradiated, his cold eyes glowed with a warmth and fire that more mercurial and mutable natures can never know.

  • Something whispered that the happiness we at present enjoyed was set on mutable foundations.

  • As to the motives which induce men to change the place of their abode, these must unavoidably be fleeting and mutable.