mutable

Changeable, dynamic, evolutive; inclined to change, evolve, mutate.

Adjective

Changeable, dynamic, evolutive; inclined to change, evolve, mutate.
- Vndoughtedly constaunce is an honourable vertue, as inconstance is reprochefull and odious. Wherfore that man whiche is mutable for euerye occasyon, muste nedes often repente hym, and in moche repentance is nat only...
- For the mutable ranke-ſented Meynie, / Let them regard me, as I doe not flatter, / And therein behold themſelues. - c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William...
- Maſters commands come with a power reſiſtleſs / To ſuch as owe them abſolute ſubjection; / And for a life who will not change his purpoſe? / (So mutable are all the ways of men) / Yet this be ſure, in nothing to comply...
Having a value that is changeable during program execution.
- A value of a mutable type can change. Objects and arrays are mutable: a JavaScript program can change the values of object properties and array elements. Numbers, booleans, null, and undefined are immutable. - 2011,...
Being one of the signs Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces, associated with adaptability, flexibility and sympathy.
Synonyms: bicorporeal

Coordinate Terms: cardinal fixed

From Middle English mutable, from Old French mutable, from Latin mutabilis (“liable to change”). By surface analysis, muta- + -able.

Something mutable; a variable or value that can change.
- Hypothesis 6.14: Entropy levels within the social group may vary but must be maintained below maximum entropy on certain relevant variables (e.g., on the six globals and five mutables). - 1990, Kenneth D. Bailey, Social...