mutation
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 变化,突变,元音变化
演变路径(由近及远)
原始词根
原始印欧语 *mey- (change)
词源说明
Late 14th century as Middle English mutacioun, from Latin mūtātiō, both directly and via Old French mutacion.
释义(英文)
名词 Noun
- Any alteration or change.
- (genetics) Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material.
- A mutant.
- (linguistics) An alteration in a particular sound of a word, especially the initial consonant, which is triggered by the word's morphological or syntactic context and not by its phonological context.
- (law