mutation

See also Mutation

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA: [mjuˈteɪʃən]
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

mutation (plural mutations)

1. any alteration or change
2. (genetics) Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material
3. a mutant
4. (linguistics) an alteration 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. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) collective noun for a collection of thrushes

Related terms

• macromutation
• micromutation
• mutate

Translations

heritable change in genetic material

• Catalan: mutació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 突變 (cmn), 突变 (cmn) (tūbiàn), 變種 (cmn), 变种 (cmn) (biànzhǒng)

• Czech: mutace (cs) f
• Danish: mutation (da) c
• Finnish: mutaatio (fi)
• French: mutation (fr) f
• German: Mutation (de) f

• Hungarian: mutáció (hu)
• Icelandic: stökkbreyting (is) f
• Indonesian: mutasi (id)
• Japanese: 変異 (ja) (へんい, hen'i), 突然変異 (ja) (とつぜんへんい, totsuzenhen'i)
• Korean: 변형 (ko), 변이 (ko)
• Russian: мутация (ru) (mutácija) f 
• Scottish Gaelic: mùthadh (gd) m
• Spanish: mutación (es) f

alteration in the sound of a word

• French: mutation (fr) f
• German: Mutation (de) f

• Irish: athrú (ga) m
• Welsh: treiglad (cy) m

mutant — see mutant

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French

Noun

mutation f (plural mutations)

1. mutation

Related terms

• muter

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Middle French

Noun

mutation f (plural mutations)

1. change, alteration, mutation

Related terms

• muter