frameshift

== English == === Etymology === From frame +‎ shift. === Noun === frameshift (countable and uncountable, plural frameshifts) A frameshift mutation. === Verb === frameshift (third-person singular simple present frameshifts, present participle frameshifting, simple past and past participle frameshifted) To use a starting point for translating a series of nucleotides that is off by an amount not divisible by three, resulting in an entirely distinct set of codons.