intermutation

English

Etymology

inter- +‎ mutation

Noun

intermutation (countable and uncountable, plural intermutations)

1. interchange; mutual or reciprocal change
   • 1992, Lynn Nadel, ‎Daniel L. Stein, 1991 Lectures In Complex Systems, page 91:

     Schnabl, Stadler, Frost, and Schuster recently showed that error, expressed as mutual intermutation between reactive molecular species significantly affects the ability of a system to bifurcate into complex, chaotic oscillations.

   • 2013, James Longrigg, Greek Rational Medicine, page 126:

     Although Plato follows his pre-Socratic predecessors in their attempt to bring the four element theory into greater accord with empirical phenomena and agrees with them that these bodies are transformed one into the other, his general theory, unfortunately, does not allow him to account for the intermutation of all four of these primary bodies. His failure to incorporate earth within the cycle of intermutation leads him to suggest that its transformation is purely illusory.

Adjective

intermutation (not comparable)

1. (genetics) Between mutations.
   • 2022, Tom Strachan, ‎Anneke Lucassen, Genetics and Genomics in Medicine:

     Most mutations in this genome have an intermutation distance of about 10⁵ bp to about 10⁶ bp, but the plot clearly shows a major region of hypermutation roughly centered on mutation position 4000 (corresponding to a 14 Mb region on the long arm of chromosome 6), where there is an extraodinary cluster of C • T mutations (red dots) that are spaced from their nearest neighbors by very short distances (often 100 bp or less).