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Mutation operator

A mutation operator is a variation operator in an evolutionary algorithm that randomly modifies one candidate solution to produce a new one, supplying the variation on which selection acts.

Mutation research

Mutation Research (Mutat. Res., ISSN 0027-5107) is an Elsevier peer-reviewed journal on mutagenesis founded in 1964, proposed by F.H. Sobels, now split into separately numbered sections including Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis.

Mutation testing

Mutation testing is a software testing technique that measures the strength of a test suite by injecting small artificial defects, called mutants, and checking whether the tests kill them.

Mutational analysis

Mutational analysis is a family of laboratory and computational methods for detecting and characterizing mutations in DNA sequences, spanning scanning methods like SSCP, melting-based methods like DHPLC, and sequencing.

Mutatis mutandis

Mutatis mutandis: Latin adverbial phrase, "with the necessary changes having been made", used in law, contracts, and scholarship to apply a rule or argument to a new case with details adjusted; contrasted with ceteris paribus.

Mutaz Essa Barshim

Mutaz Essa Barshim (معتز عيسى برشم), Qatari high jumper born 1991 in Doha; Olympic gold shared with Tamberi at Tokyo 2020, three world titles, Asian record 2.43 m.

Mutbaal (ruler of Pella)

Mutbaal, also written Mut-Baalu, was ruler of Pella in the Transjordanian Jordan Valley in the mid-14th century BC, known as the author of Amarna letter EA 255.

Mutbenret

Mutbenret was an 18th Dynasty Egyptian royal in-law, traditionally identified as the sister of Queen Nefertiti, attested in the Amarna tombs of the 1350s BC.

Mutch (Martian crater)

Mutch is a roughly 200-km-wide impact crater on Mars at 0.6°N, 55.3°W, named for Viking Lander Imaging Team leader Thomas A. Mutch; IAU approval 1985; Mars Global Surveyor imaged landslides on its floor.

Mute

Mute (El silencio) is a 2023 Spanish psychological thriller miniseries created by Aitor Gabilondo for Netflix, starring Arón Piper, Almudena Amor, and Cristina Kovani, released in six episodes on May 19, 2023.

Mute (2018 film)

Mute (2018) is a Netflix sci-fi noir directed by Duncan Jones, starring Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Rudd, and Justin Theroux; a 16-year passion project set in future Berlin, critically panned (RT 20%, Metascore 35).

Mute Records

Mute Records, independent British record label founded 1978 by Daniel Miller with The Normal's TVOD/Warm Leatherette; home of Depeche Mode, Erasure, Nick Cave; sold to EMI 2002, catalogue later to BMG.

Mute Records discography

Mute Records is a British record label founded by Daniel Miller in 1978, known for electronic, synth-pop, and industrial music by Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure.

Mute swan

Mute swan (Cygnus olor), large Eurasian waterbird with orange bill and black knob, introduced to North America as an ornamental species; invasive, territorial, eats up to 3.6 kg of aquatic vegetation daily.

Müteferrika Press

The Müteferrika Press (مطبعه امیره) was the first Turkish printing house, licensed at Constantinople in 1727 and founded by Ibrahim Muteferrika with Mehmed Said Efendi under Sultan Ahmed III, printing secular works from 1729.

Muteluv (โปรดใช้วิจารณญาณในการรักเธอ)

MuTeLuv (โปรดใช้วิจารณญาณในการรักเธอ) is a 2025-2026 GMMTV Thai anthology series of seven romance mini-series themed on Thai "mu" luck culture, aired Mondays on GMM25, 28 episodes.

Mutemath

Mutemath (Mute Math, MUTEMATH): American alternative rock project founded in New Orleans by Paul Meany, ex-Earthsuit, with drummer Darren King; Grammy-nominated "Typical" video; albums Mute Math (2006) through Play Dead (2017); later Meany's solo project on Voytek Records.

Mutemwiya

Mutemwiya, also written Mutemweya or Mutemwia, was a wife of Pharaoh Thutmose IV and mother of his successor Amenhotep III, queens of Egypt's 18th Dynasty in the New Kingdom.

Mutesa I

Mutesa I, also known as Muteesa I, was kabaka, or king, of Buganda, a kingdom on Lake Victoria in present-day Uganda, reigning from 1856 to 1884.

Mutesa II of Buganda

Mutesa II (Sir Edward Muteesa, 1924–1969), Kabaka of Buganda from 1939 and first President of Uganda 1963–1966; deported by Governor Cohen in 1953, returned 1955, deposed by Obote in 1966, died in London exile.

Muthal Mariyathai (முதல் மரியாதை)

Muthal Mariyathai (முதல் மரியாதை), a 1985 Indian drama directed by Bharathiraja, stars Sivaji Ganesan and Radha. It won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil.

Muthaland Entertainment

Muthaland Entertainment is an independent South African record label and production house in Johannesburg, founded by Lance Stehr in 2009 as the sister company of Ghetto Ruff.

Muthanna Al Raqtan

Muthanna Al Raqtan is a Saudi entrepreneur who founded Ekuep, an online business-to-business marketplace for restaurant, cafe, and hotel equipment, in 2015 in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, and serves as its chief executive officer.

Muthanna Governorate

Muthanna Governorate (محافظة المثنى) is a governorate of southern Iraq with capital Samawah on the Euphrates; Iraq's poorest governorate, with poverty rates of 47.7% (2018), 52% (2021), and 43.6% (2024), desert terrain, Lake Sawa, cement industries, and the ancient site of Uruk.

Muthappa Rai (ಮುತ್ತಪ್ಪ ರೈ)

Muthappa Rai (ಮುತ್ತಪ್ಪ ರೈ), Nettala Muthappa Rai, was a Bengaluru underworld don, later realtor and founder of Jaya Karnataka; deported from Dubai in 2002, acquitted in over a dozen cases, died of brain cancer 15 May 2020 aged 68.

Mutharaiyar dynasty

The Mutharaiyar dynasty (முத்தரையர்) was a line of chiefs and kings who controlled the Kaveri delta in Tamil Nadu, in parts of present Pudukkottai, Thanjavur, and Trichy districts.

Muthassi

Muthassi (മുത്തശ്ശി), Malayalam for grandmother, is a poetry collection by Balamani Amma, one of Malayalam's most honored women poets, earning her Sahitya Akademi recognition in the 1960s.

Muthiah Vaduganathan

Muthiah Vaduganathan is a cardiologist and clinical trialist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for quantifying how drug combinations change heart failure outcomes.

Muthis

Muthis is a putative king of Egypt's Twenty-ninth Dynasty of Mendes, assigned a one-year reign in the early fourth century BC and known only from Eusebius' version of Manetho's Epitome.

Muthoot Finance

Muthoot Finance Limited is a Kerala-based Indian non-banking financial company that lends money against household gold jewelry. It is India's largest gold-loan NBFC, incorporated in 1997 with about 4,967 branches.