EGAVE

mutation

About 5.93 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Any alteration or change.
  2. noun Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material.
  3. noun A mutant.
  4. noun 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.
  5. noun The transfer of title of an asset in a register.
  6. noun A group of thrushes.

Similar words

mutant sport mutagenicity mutagenesis flux variant variation transformation transition surge

Often followed by

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Word family

mutational mutationally mutations

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