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intermutation

intermutation noun: interchange; mutual or reciprocal change.

Noun

intermutation (countable and uncountable, plural intermutations)

  1. interchange; mutual or reciprocal change
    • Schnabl, Stadler, Frost, and Schuster recently showed that error, expressed as mutual intermutation between reactive molecular species significantly affects the ability of a system to bifurcate into complex, chaotic oscillations.1992, Lynn Nadel, Daniel L. Stein, 1991 Lectures In Complex Systems, page 91
    • Although Plato follows his pre-Socratic predecessors in their attempt to bring the four element theory into greater accord with empirical phenomena and agrees with them that these bodies are transformed one into the other, his general theory, unfortunately, does not allow him to account for the...2013, James Longrigg, Greek Rational Medicine, page 126

Adjective

intermutation (not comparable)

  1. Between mutations.
    • Most mutations in this genome have an intermutation distance of about 10⁵ bp to about 10⁶ bp, but the plot clearly shows a major region of hypermutation roughly centered on mutation position 4000 (corresponding to a 14 Mb region on the long arm of chromosome 6), where there is an extraodinary...2022, Tom Strachan, Anneke Lucassen, Genetics and Genomics in Medicine

Forms of intermutation

pluralintermutations

Origin of intermutation

From inter- + mutation.

Questions about intermutation

What does intermutation mean?
Intermutation means interchange; mutual or reciprocal change.
What part of speech is intermutation?
Intermutation can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of intermutation?
The plural of intermutation is intermutations.

Words near intermutation in the dictionary

  1. intermuscular
  2. intermuscularly
  3. intermusculated
  4. intermutant
  5. intermutants
  6. intermutation
  7. intermutational
  8. intermutations
  9. intermutual
  10. intermutually
  11. intermycelial

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