3 November 2013

mutable

[myoo-tuh-buhl]

adjective

1. liable or subject to change or alteration
2. given to changing; constantly changing; fickle or inconstant: the mutable ways of fortune.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin mūtābilis, equivalent to mūtā ( re ) to change + -bilis -ble

Related forms
mu·ta·bil·i·ty, mu·ta·ble·ness, noun
mu·ta·bly, adverb
hy·per·mu·ta·bil·i·ty, noun
hy·per·mu·ta·ble, adjective
hy·per·mu·ta·ble·ness, noun

Synonyms
1. changeable, variable. 2. unstable, vacillating, unsettled, wavering, unsteady.

Antonyms
2. stable.

Today’s aphorism

‘We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present’.

– Marianne Williamson

On this day

3 November 1913 – The United States introduces income tax.

3 November 1921 – birth of Charles Dennis Buchinsky, otherwise known as Charles Bronson, American actor. Died 30 August 2003.

3 November 1957 – Laika becomes the world’s first space-dog when the Soviet Union launches Sputnik II, sending the first ever living animal into space. Laika is the first animal to orbit the earth. She was a stray-dog which was chosen to undergo training with two other dogs, before being selected for the mission. In 2002 it was revealed that she died within hours of take-off from over-heating when one of the motors failed to separate from the payload.