Talk:mutable

Missing ety and sense?[edit]

Can it also mean "able to be muted/silenced"? The phrase "mutable amplifier" seems to be in use. Equinox ◑ 23:12, 8 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, "mutable" is a common misspelling of "muteable", so that should probably be listed as well. Zombiewizard45 (talk) 08:12, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I do think this sense exists in this spelling (and not just muteable), but finding cites is hard; here's one for "mutable" and one for "non-mutable":

(Can we date this quote?), Basel Halak, Hardware Supply Chain Security: Threat Modelling, Emerging Attacks and Countermeasures, Springer Nature (→ISBN), page 40:
Non-mutable convergent key gates: If the neither of the key gates can be muted, then they are call non-mutable convergent key gates. As an attacker cannot access key inputs nor can they mute either gate in the pattern, they have to use a brute force attack.
1993, Hazard Assessment and Control Technology in Semiconductor Manufacturing II., Amer Conf of Governmental
The device is a "mutable, nondisablable" alarm. This alarm could be muted, or silenced, but would automatically re-alarm later after a certain maximum time interval. It could not be disabled. This is assuming the initial condition has not [disappeared].