What does it mean to mutate?

What does it mean to mutate an array?

Consider,

a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

a[4] *= 2

console.log(a)    //  [1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 6, 7, 8, 9]

When we modify any of the contents of the array, that is mutation.