invariable
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɛɹ.i.ə.bl̩/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɛə.ɹi.ə.bl̩/
- (Southern American English) IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɛɚbl̩/[1]
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: in‧va‧ri‧able
Adjective[edit]
invariable (not comparable)
- Not variable; unalterable; uniform; always having the same value.
- 1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilisation:
- Physical laws which are invariable.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action.
- (mathematics) Constant.
- (by extension, grammar, of a word, or a grammatical class) That cannot undergo inflection, conjugation or declension.
- The French adjective marron ‘brown’ is invariable: it does not take the usual s in the plural.
- Synonym: uninflectable
- Hyponyms: indeclinable, inconjugable
Quotations[edit]
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:invariable.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
not variable
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(mathematics) constant
Noun[edit]
invariable (plural invariables)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Stanley, Oma (1937), “II. Vowel Sounds in Unstressed and Partially Stressed Syllables”, in The Speech of East Texas (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 2), New York: Columbia University Press, , →ISBN, § II.2, page 46.
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /im.və.ɾiˈa.blə/
- (Central) IPA(key): /im.bə.ɾiˈa.blə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /im.va.ɾiˈa.ble/
Adjective[edit]
invariable (masculine and feminine plural invariables)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “invariable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “invariable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “invariable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “invariable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
invariable (plural invariables)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “invariable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
invariable (plural invariables)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “invariable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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