Usually means: Change in genetic material sequence.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. mutation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mutation: Merriam-Webster
  3. mutation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mutation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mutation: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mutation: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mutation, mutation: Wordnik
  8. mutation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mutation: Wiktionary
  10. mutation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mutation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mutation: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. mutation: Dictionary.com
  14. mutation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mutation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Mutation (Jordan algebra), Mutation (algebra), Mutation (biology), Mutation (disambiguation), Mutation (genetic algorithm), Mutation (knot theory), Mutation (novel), Mutation, The Mutation (Animorphs), The Mutation (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mutation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mutation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mutation: Rhymezone
  20. Mutation (f), mutation, mutation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mutation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. mutation: FreeDictionary.org
  23. mutation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. mutation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Mutation: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Mutation: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mutation: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. mutation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. mutation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Mutation: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Mutation: Merck Manuals
  8. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  10. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  11. DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)
  12. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  13. mutation: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  14. mutation: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  15. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  16. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  17. mutation: Medical dictionary
  18. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  19. Mutation: Drug Medical Dictionary
  20. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  5. Mutation: Biology dictionary
  6. Mutation: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  7. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  8. DOE Genome Glossary (No longer online)
  9. mutation: Rhododendron Glossary
  10. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)
  11. Glossary of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  12. mutation: Evolution Glossary
  13. Mutation: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  14. mutation: Evolution Glossary
  15. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  16. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mutation: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mutational as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any alteration or change.
noun:  (genetics) Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material.
noun:  A mutant.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (law) The transfer of title of an asset in a register.
noun:  (rare, collective noun) A group of thrushes.

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