Mutator

mutator may refer to:

Arts

Film

• Mutator (film) or Time of the Beast, a 1989 horror film directed by John R. Bowey

Literature

• Mutator (comics), the nickname of a paranormal in Marvel Comics comic DP7, in the New Universe imprint

Technologies

Computer science

• A mutator method, an object method that changes the state of the object
• In the study of garbage collection, the mutator refers to the application program, which mutates the object dependency graph

Engineering

• A mutator is the central shaft in some scraped surface heat exchangers

Other usages

• In genetics, a mutator genotype, a genotype that exhibits high rates of mutation
• Mutators, in the Unreal series are simple Mods that can make small changes to the basic gameplay