mutability
可变性,易变性,突变性,变异性
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Definitions
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- : the quality of being liable to undergo change or alteration:With the realization of cancer's mutability, they now fear it might not be the same disease in everyone.
- : the quality of constantly changing; transient or transitory quality:National borders can have a permanence that contrasts with the almost infinite mutability of the cultures contained within them.
- : Computers. the characteristic of an object having properties whose values can change while the object itself maintains a unique identity: The mutability of the "sales report" object allows properties like sales period and salesperson to be updated without losing the reference to the report elsewhere in the application.
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Examples
The mutability of language is itself immutable, and English never stops growing and changing.
As the "Interpreter" of the title suggests, the mutability of language also plays a major role in Ulitskaya's message.
You become aware of the endless mutability of the universe, and you become aware of the central role of variation.
The gentle sadness of the autumn day had moved her to discourse on the mutability of mundane things.
Howell Gruffydd picked a tear from his eye with his little finger, and spoke of the mutability of human affairs.
We ourselves have grown up since the clash of opinion for and against the mutability of species died down.
These had their very close relation to questions of the mutability of species.
And migration, as well as mutability of species, entered into most of his speculations.