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mutate
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To undergo mutation. 2 (context transitive English) To cause mutation.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. undergo mutation; "cells mutate"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to change state or condition," 1818, back-formation from mutation . In genetic sense, 1913, from Latin mutatus , past participle of mutare "to change" (see mutable ). Related: Mutated ; mutating .
Usage examples of mutate.
They were a form of mutated twinning, joined at the base of the skull so that a single cephalic structure served both separate bodies.
Deep in its guts it creates coherent atom beams, from a bunch of Bose-Einstein condensates hovering on the edge of absolute zero: by superimposing interference patterns on them, it generates an atomic hologram, building a perfect replica of some original artifact, right down to the atomic level there are no clunky moving nanotechnology parts to break or overheat or mutate.
And this cybrid, Void Which Binds -- connected, ARN-ied, DNA-engineered, nanotech-enhanced, terribly mutated knight .
Abe Durancy, of his mad wild visions, which were now spilling and growing and metamorphosing and mutating all around her, and thought, he was happy.
But the virus proved unstable and, by chance, it mutated into a radical DNA structure infecting all Architects and all human beings indiscriminately.
Mutates were insatiably ravenous, devouring anything and everything they saw, even other Mutates.
I hardly think the boffins will have explored the possibility of a mutated and highly-virulent oidium phylloxera fungus, but I should think that the prospect of developing a nasty bug which poisons grapevines rather than en-tire populations ought to appeal to whatever small spark of common humanity they may yet retain.
A mutated oncogene may direct a cell to reproduce wildly, and this means, in turn, that more mutations are likely to occur.
Since the modes overlap the moons by one, I could work with an ascending melodic pattern that would mutate through the modes, starting with C ionian in the plagal form.
Continuing to mutate, the fungi forced its hyphae into the microscopic fissures within the aluminum skin of the tanks, having already consumed the lining of rubber sealant.
In Longsaddle, where prejudice was secondary to the fanatical curiosity of the unsinkable Harpells, he had been placed on display like some mutated farm animal, mentally poked and prodded.
It disappeared inside, making some linkage that helped the boy achieve a more intimate bond with Sun than could he had solely through his mutated hands and mercuric eyes.
Jack contributed a section that constantly mutated from one symmetrical geometrical form to the next, representing the primacy of sheer organization in the evolving universe, the antientropic forces that organize things into organic structures, expressed in the great Overstructure by a series of sections that constantly mutated from one symmetrical geometric form to another, each a variation of the last.
Their genes have been shuffled around, mutated, transposed, rearranged, duplicated, reduplicated, and transmuted, and the DNA we now possess bears only the vaguest resemblance to what it was like at the beginning.
Never mind a thing like staph or gonorrhea which mutated into forms resistant to a drug like penicillin.