mutable vs transitive

mutable

adj
  • Changeable, dynamic, evolutive; inclined to change, evolve, mutate. 

  • Having a value that is changeable during program execution. 

  • Being one of the signs Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces, associated with adaptability, flexibility and sympathy. 

noun
  • Something mutable; a variable or value that can change. 

transitive

adj
  • Affected by transference of signification. 

  • Taking a direct object or objects. 

  • Making a transit or passage. 

  • Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c. 

  • Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second. 

  • Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other. 

noun
  • A transitive verb. 

How often have the words mutable and transitive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )