mutator

mutate +‎ -or

mutator (plural mutators)

1. That which causes mutation or change.

   In object-oriented programming, the mutator function changes the value of the field that gives its name.

• setter

• accessor

mūtātor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of mūtō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of mūtō

• mutator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mutator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• mutator in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers