Mutation vs Vicissitude - What's the difference?
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Any alteration or change.
(genetics) Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material.
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(linguistics) An alteration 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.
(rare) A (collective noun) for a collection of thrushes.
* 1984 , Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries, Virginia Wildlife , volume 45:
* 2010 , Doug Bennet, Tim Tiner, The Complete Up North: A Guide to Ontario's Wilderness from Black Flies to the Northern Lights , page 57:
* 2013 , Jason Sacher, A Compendium of Collective Nouns: From an Armory of Aardvarks to a Zeal of Zebras , page 196:
Regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
(often, in the plural) a change, especially in one's life or fortunes.
* 1667 , , Paradise Lost , vii, 351,
* 2003 , "US redeployments afoot in Asia", Christian Science Monitor , Nov. 18, Pg. 6.,
* Seneca
As nouns the difference between mutation and vicissitude
is that mutation is any alteration or change while vicissitude is regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.mutation
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(wikipedia mutation)Alternative forms
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(en noun)David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
- Birdwatchers would enjoy a host of sparrows, a herd of swans, a descent of woodpeckers, a herd of wrens, and mutation of thrushes.
- Names for a group: A flute or mutation of thrushes.
- A Mutation of Thrushes
The authors of the books of venery were not predicting Darwin with this term, but taking a cue from a common fable of the time.
vicissitude
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(en noun)- And God made.. the Stars, and set them in the firmament of Heaven to illuminate the Earth, and rule the day in their vicissitude ...
- The vicissitudes of war in Iraq cast a dreary backdrop for Donald Rumsfeld's first visit to Asian military allies since he became US Defense Secretary in 2001.
- Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
