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mutation

noun
/mjuˈteɪʃən/

Etymology

Late 14th century as Middle English mutacioun, from Latin mūtātiō, both directly and via Old French mutacion.

  1. derived from mutacion
  2. derived from mūtātiō
  3. inherited from mutacioun

Definitions

  1. Any alteration or change.

  2. Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material.

  3. A mutant.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. An alteration in a particular sound of a word, especially the initial consonant, which is…

      An alteration in a particular sound of a word, especially the initial consonant, which is triggered by the word's morphological or syntactic context and not by its phonological context.

    2. The transfer of title of an asset in a register.

    3. A group of thrushes.

      • Birdwatchers would enjoy a host of sparrows, a herd of swans, a descent of woodpeckers, a herd of wrens, and mutation of thrushes.
      • Names for a group: A flute or mutation of thrushes.
      • A Mutation of Thrushes The authors of the books of venery were not predicting Darwin with this term, but taking a cue from a common fable of the time.

The neighborhood

Derived

animutation, antimutation, aspirate mutation, backmutation, ectomutation, endomutation, epimutation, extramutation, frameshift mutation, hard mutation, heteromutation, homomutation, hypermutation, hypomutation, i-mutation, intermutation, intramutation, intromutation, macromutation, macromutational, macromutationism, macromutationist, megamutation, mesomutation, micromutation, micromutational, micromutationism, micromutationist, missense mutation, mixed mutation, multimutation, mutational, mutationally, mutationism, mutationist, mutationless, mutation pressure, nasal mutation, neomutation, nonmutation · +17 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at mutation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at mutation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at mutation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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