mutant

See also: Mutant

English

Etymology

From Latin mūtāns, present participle of mūtāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmjuːtənt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈmjuʔn̩(t)/
• Hyphenation: mu‧tant

Noun

mutant (plural mutants)

1. Something which has mutated, which has one or more new characteristics from a mutation.

   Your plaid fish are mutants.

2. (informal) Someone or something that seems strange, abnormal, or bizarre.

   Your neighbor seems to be a mutant; he’s so cringy!

3. (computing) Synonym of mutex

Translations

something that has mutated

• Catalan: mutant m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 突變體／突变体 (tūbiàntǐ), 突变体 (tūbiàntǐ)

• Czech: mutant m
• Dutch: mutant (nl)
• Esperanto: mutaciinto
• Estonian: mutant (et)
• Finnish: mutantti (fi)
• French: mutant (fr) m
• German: Mutant (de) m, Mutantin f
• Greek: μεταλλαγμένος (el) m (metallagménos)
• Hungarian: mutáns
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 突然変異体 (とつぜんへんいたい, totsuzenhen'itai)
• Persian: جهش‌یافته (jaheš-yâfte)
• Polish: mutant (pl) m
• Portuguese: mutante (pt) m or f
• Romanian: mutantului
• Russian: мута́нт (ru) m (mutánt)
• Serbo-Croatian: mùtant (sh) m
• Slovene: mutanta f
• Spanish: mutante (es) m
• Swahili: mutanti class 9/10, mwenye chembe za urithi zilizobadilika class 1/2, mwenye mabadiliko ya kinasaba class 1/2
• Tagalog: ibanyuhay

Adjective

mutant (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, undergoing (i.e. mutating), or resulting from change or mutation; that has undergone mutation.

   Your mutant fish are dying.

2. (informal) Strange, abnormal, or bizarre.

   Your mutant brother just growled at me again!

Translations

mutant: mutating, that has mutated

• Catalan: mutant
• Esperanto: mutaciinta
• German: mutierend (de), mutiert (de)
• Hungarian: mutáns
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Persian: جهش‌یافته (jaheš-yâfte)
• Spanish: mutante (es)
• Swahili: ambaye chembe za urithi zilibadilika, mwenye mabadiliko ya kinasaba class 1/2, ya kimutanti

Related terms

• mutate
• mutation

Further reading

• “mutant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “mutant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Catalan

Verb

mutant

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmutant]

Noun

1. mutant

Related terms

• See motiv
• mutace
• mutovat

Further reading

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mutant/, [muˈtˢanˀd̥]

Noun

mutant c (singular definite mutanten, plural indefinite mutanter)

1. mutant (something that has mutated)

Inflection

Declension of mutant

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mutant	mutanten	mutanter	mutanterne
genitive	mutants	mutantens	mutanters	mutanternes

Synonyms

• mutation

Further reading

• mutant on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mutans, present participle of mutare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /myˈtɑnt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mu‧tant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

Noun

mutant m (plural mutanten, diminutive mutantje n)

1. mutant

Related terms

• mutatie
• muteren

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French

Adjective

mutant (feminine mutante, masculine plural mutants, feminine plural mutantes)

1. mutant

Verb

mutant

1. present participle of muter

Further reading

• “mutant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) mūtant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of mūtō

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.tant/

Noun

1. mutant

Declension

Declension of mutant

	singular	plural
nominative	mutant	mutanty
genitive	mutanta	mutantów
dative	mutantowi	mutantom
accusative	mutanta	mutanty
instrumental	mutantem	mutantami
locative	mutancie	mutantach
vocative	mutancie	mutanty

Further reading

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