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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "promjenljiv"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "changeable",
"word": "mutable"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "changeable",
"word": "değişebilir"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "changeable",
"word": "değişken"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "changeable",
"word": "có thể thay đổi"
}
],
"word": "mutable"
}
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"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old French",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *mey- (change)",
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "mutable"
},
"expansion": "Middle English mutable",
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"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "mutable"
},
"expansion": "Old French mutable",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "mutabilis",
"4": "",
"5": "liable to change"
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"name": "der"
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"form": "mutables",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1990, Kenneth D. Bailey, Social Entropy Theory, page 281",
"text": "Hypothesis 6.14: Entropy levels within the social group may vary but must be maintained below maximum entropy on certain relevant variables (e.g., on the six globals and five mutables).",
"type": "quotation"
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"Something mutable; a variable or value that can change."
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"ipa": "/ˈmjuːtəbəl/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmjuːtəbl̩]"
},
{
"homophone": "muteable"
}
],
"word": "mutable"
}
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