Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not changing or subject to change; constant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not variable; constant; uniform; unchanging.
- Not capable of being varied; unalterable; unchangeable.
- noun In mathematics, a quantity that does not vary; a constant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not given to variation or change; unalterable; unchangeable; always uniform.
- noun (Math.) An invariable quantity; a constant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
variable ; that always has the samevalue in differentoccurrences . - adjective mathematics
constant . - adjective by extension, grammar, of a word That cannot undergo
inflection ,conjugation ordeclension . - noun Something that does not
vary ; aconstant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not liable to or capable of change
- noun a quantity that does not vary
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is this that constitutes the invariable laws of motion: I say _invariable_, because they can never change, without producing confusion in the essence of things.
The System of Nature, Volume 1 Paul Henri Thiry Holbach 1756
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The article is invariable, that is, does not change in form when used with plural nouns, as "la viro", the man, "la viroj", the men.
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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Dan Treu grinned as he recalled the invariable exchange of personalities when they met.
The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916
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Now when we analyse the conception of a cause to the bottom, we find as the last residuum in our crucible nothing but what Hume found there long ago, and that is simply the idea of invariable sequence.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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Between the years 1860-1875, there grew up in England an absorbing interest in Social Philosophy, and a conviction that the idea of invariable law offered a solution of the progress of society.
Studies in Early Victorian Literature Frederic Harrison 1877
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And if it be these, the old laws of right and wrong, which this author and his school call invariable and immutable, we shall,
Roman and the Teuton Charles Kingsley 1847
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The metaphysical mode of explanation, being less antagonistic than the theological to the idea of invariable laws, is still slower in being entirely discarded.
Auguste Comte and Positivism John Stuart Mill 1839
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This Prince was an impartial chief magistrate; he prided himself upon his "invariable" principles of justice, and he allowed nothing to influence his decisions.
Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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There he saw that species of plants and animals were not invariable, as biologists of the time taught, but that there was variation within the species.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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It inevitably happens, and it often invariable sucks.
Tyler Mahoney: How to Navigate the Quarter-Life Crisis Tyler Mahoney 2011
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