mutating

Causing or tending to cause mutation.

Adjective

  1. Causing or tending to cause mutation.
    • The mutating process that cells undergo can lead to cancer.
    • std::sort is a mutating algorithm.
  2. Having the ability to make changes to data other than its makeup.
    • The begin() member of std::string returns a mutating iterator.

Derived

mutating table nonmutating

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of mutate