mutable
pronunciation
How to pronounce mutable in British English:
UK [ˈmju:təbl]
How to pronounce mutable in American English:
US [ˈmjutəbəl]
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- Adjective:
- capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature
Word Origin
- mutable (adj.)
- late 14c., "liable to change," from Latin mutabilis "changeable," from mutare "to change," from PIE root *mei- (1) "to change, go, move" (cognates: Sanskrit methati "changes, alternates, joins, meets;" Avestan mitho "perverted, false;" Hittite mutai- "be changed into;" Latin meare "to go, pass," migrare "to move from one place to another;" Old Church Slavonic mite "alternately;" Czech mijim "to go by, pass by," Polish mijać "avoid;" Gothic maidjan "to change"); with derivatives referring to the exchange of goods and services as regulated by custom or law (compare Latin mutuus "done in exchange," munus "service performed for the community, duty, work").
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Example
- 1. Some design problems are easier to solve with mutable objects .
- 2. We could have used a val with a mutable type , like listbuffer .
- 3. Functional programming is especially useful for concurrency , since it eliminates the need to synchronize access to mutable state .
- 4. Scala supports this model with its actors library , but it allows for both mutable and immutable variables .
- 5. This screensaver includes mutable music and adjustable speed .