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invariable

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Etymology

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Fromin- +‎variable.

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Adjective

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invariable (notcomparable)

  1. Notvariable;unalterable;uniform; always having the samevalue.
    • 1860,Isaac Taylor,Ultimate Civilisation:
      Physical laws which areinvariable.
    • 1907 August,Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, inThe Younger Set, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:
      “A tight little craft,” was Austin’sinvariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action.
    • 1957 October, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, inRailway Magazine, page714:
      The rebuilt "Merchant Navy" Pacifics have the monopoly of these workings, and Mr. C. K. Dunkley writes that as a result of their reduced water consumption, as compared with the unrebuilt engines, some engine-crews no longer spend time taking water at Southampton Central, theinvariable practice previously.
  2. (mathematics)Constant.
  3. (by extension, grammar, of a word, or a grammatical class) That cannot undergoinflection,conjugation ordeclension.
    Synonym:uninflectable
    Hyponyms:indeclinable,inconjugable
    The French adjectivemarron ‘brown’ isinvariable: it does not take the usuals in the plural.

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not variable
(mathematics) constant

Noun

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invariable (pluralinvariables)

  1. Something that does notvary; aconstant.

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  1. ^Stanley, Oma (1937), “II. Vowel Sounds in Unstressed and Partially Stressed Syllables”, inThe Speech of East Texas (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 2),New York:Columbia University Press,→DOI,→ISBN,§ II.2, page46.

Catalan

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Etymology

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Fromin- +‎variable.

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invariable m orf (masculine and feminine pluralinvariables)

  1. invariable

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French

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Etymology

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Fromin- +‎variable.

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invariable (pluralinvariables)

  1. invariable

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Fromin- +‎variable.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /imbaˈɾjable/[ĩm.baˈɾja.β̞le]
  • Rhymes:-able
  • Syllabification:in‧va‧ria‧ble

Adjective

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invariable m orf (masculine and feminine pluralinvariables)

  1. invariable

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