What's the difference between changeable and mutable?

Changeable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.
  • (a.) Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This confirms the findings according to which chromosomal changeability in the NBLD may be associated mostly with the change in the number of homologous chromosomes rather than with chromosomal aberrations.
  • (2) Malfunctioning pacemaker produced stimuli with changeable amplitude and fast rate.
  • (3) Sigmoidal kinetics is considered as an adaptive feature of glucokinases to increase the efficiency of the liver uptake of glucose at the changeable concentrations in the blood resulting from variations in the amount of dietary glucose.
  • (4) Individual changeability is more pronounced in the all cardiac parts at diastole.
  • (5) In the legal institution of driver's licence on probation the driving licence law relies on the changeability of the driving beginner by means of post-schooling.
  • (6) Even if Clegg's ideas are proving changeable, the party faithful will ensure he remains a yellow rather than a scarlet or blue pimpernel – any decision that affects party independence will have to be agreed by three-quarters of their MPs.
  • (7) These findings are in line with the results concerning the dynamics of vigilance and certain claims of earlier authors according to which EEG changeability should be decisive for therapeutic outcome.
  • (8) One connects it with a form of heterophoria in which the eyes--because of an inacurate and changeable function of binocular vision are unable to exert precise saccadic movements enabling a binocular or precisely unimacular reading.
  • (9) It was concluded that the histologic Dx of large cell carcinoma was the most inter- and intra-changeable, and the most frequent dissenting Dx from it was poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma.
  • (10) In regard to the villi, the morphology is locally changeable, with the atrophic-sclerotic areas alternated with hyperplastic areas, but topographically well defined.
  • (11) The results indicate that even after birth the CSF pathways of babies with spina bifida cystica are in a plastic and changeable condition, with competition between constricting and distending forces.
  • (12) The encephalic structures are very complex, changeable, labile, therefor her variations can correspond with the "psychologics" variations.
  • (13) The difference was especially marked for the categories "synthetic - natural", "unpleasant - very tasty", and "changeable - stable in times".
  • (14) Before collagen pathologic changes occurred, fatty deposits on artery wall were changeable.
  • (15) Hearing Davies’s description of the moment when plastic emerges from the machine, blown up through a tube like a bubble, expansive and changeable, it is easy to see why plastic bags exert such sway over the popular imagination.
  • (16) The load level of SR was less changeable than those of SB and SY by the difference of heat treatment temperature.
  • (17) The study showed changeability of the character of myocardial asynergy under the effect of the drugs investigated, which should be taken into account when these drugs are given to patients with ischemic heart disease.
  • (18) Apparently amino acid sequences of visual pigments are less changeable than the morphology of the photoreceptor cells in the course of evolution.
  • (19) Emotion-focused coping was positively related to depression when a stressor was appraised as changeable.
  • (20) Total activity of HAP was changeable according to the degree of maturation in the case of chum salmon.

Mutable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature.
  • (a.) Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, at the aprt locus the repair-deficient cells were much more highly mutable (9-15-fold) than the repair-proficient AT3-2 cells.
  • (2) It is postulated that the cartoon serves to stabilize the more mutable portrayals of psychiatrists in other media.
  • (3) However, this mutant was only slightly mutable by MNNG in comparison with the wild-type strain.
  • (4) Analysis of the bases neighboring the mutations appeared to be related to the mutability of the base pairs with the sequence of 5'-purine-G-G-3' being the most frequently mutated.
  • (5) Facts were mutable, and didn’t need to displace a good yarn.
  • (6) The uvrA- strain was more sensitive to induction of mutations by CMNU than the wild and polA- strains, but the recA- strain was hardly mutable by CMNU.
  • (7) Three UVS mutants were characterized by greatly increased mutability in all analysed loci; slight mutability was found in seven mutants.
  • (8) Multicopy plasmids carrying either the umuDC operon of Escherichia coli or its analog mucAB operon, were introduced into Ames Salmonella strains in order to analyze the influence of UmuDC and MucAB proteins on repair and mutability after UV irradiation.
  • (9) The P1CMrec plasmid was also involved in the creation of new mutant genes within the E. coli genome (not carrying recA), some mutabilities being very high upon extended incubation.
  • (10) The existence of gam3 and gam5 mutants indicates that at least two common steps control both nuclear DNA repair and the mutability of particular alleles of the mtDNA.
  • (11) Gene mutations in phage PZA were induced by hydroxylamine and their frequency was compared with the evolutionary mutability.
  • (12) The presence among wild mice of a haplotype (H-2u21) that appears to be very similar to a haplotype (H-2v) carried by an inbred strain (B10.SM) has some interesting implications for considerations of H-2 gene mutability.
  • (13) In excision deficient cells the effect of the plasmid on survival was less pronounced while cell mutability was increased.
  • (14) Similar type of different mutability was found in mutagen-sensitive strain mus-201G1 and in the control 3-4 strain having the same genetical background as mus mutation.
  • (15) In non-UV-mutable umu and lexA strains, UV mutagenesis can be demonstrated if delayed photoreversal is given.
  • (16) The chronology of genetic events leading to the discovery of mu implicates, but does not prove, the insertion of a "foreign" DNA segment as the basis of mutability.
  • (17) High mutability, disturbance of the development of the life cycle and genetic instability are traits which resemble hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila and meiotic dysgenesis in Phycomyces.
  • (18) No marked effect of the mutation on UV-mutability at lower doses was apparent.
  • (19) Previous studies have shown the non-mutability of Haemophilus influenzae either by UV irradiation of the cells or by irradiating the transforming DNA and transformation of competent cells.
  • (20) With respect to mutability the BC1 descendants of both types could be divided into two classes.