For it is a thousand times more credible, that four mutable elements, and one immutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of infinite small portions, or seeds unplaced, should have produced this order and beauty, without a divine marshal.
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Just to clarify, however, StringBuilder is actually a mutable object, not an immutable one. A regular java String is immutable (meaning that once it's been created you cannot change the underlying string without changing the object). For example, let's say that I have a class called ColoredString that has a String value and a String color:
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Overloaded. Constructs an immutable dictionary based on some transformation of a sequence.(Defined by ImmutableDictionary .). Overloaded. Enumerates and transforms a sequence, and produces an immutable dictionary of its contents.(Defined by ImmutableDictionary .). Overloaded.
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The whole reasoning, of course, is founded on the assumption of the immutability of species; otherwise the difference in the species in the two regions might be considered as superinduced during a length of time.
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See Mutable.] Not mutable; not capable or susceptible of change; unchangeable; unalterable. [1913 Webster] That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation. --Heb. vi. 18.
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immutable. adjective unchanging, fixed, permanent, stable, constant, enduring, abiding, perpetual, inflexible, steadfast, sacrosanct, immovable, ageless, invariable, unalterable, unchangeable, changeless the immutable principles of right and wrong. adjective.
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To recap, in Java, java.lang.String is an immutable object (it cannot be changed once it's created) and java.lang.StringBuilder is a mutable object because it can be changed without creating a new instance. share | improve this answer.
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Not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature. Synonyms: changeless; immutable. Context example: the view of that time was that all species were immutable, created by God. Antonym: mutable (capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature).
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• IMMUTABLE (adjective). The adjective IMMUTABLE has 1 sense: 1. not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature. Familiarity information: IMMUTABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
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This lazy evaluation of hashcode places String in an interesting position as an immutable object whose state changes, but it cannot be observed to have changed without using reflection. So maybe the definition of immutable should be an object that cannot be observed to have changed.
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immutable, definition
Immutable is defined as not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature.