invariable

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ variable.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛɹ.i.ə.bl̩/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛə.ɹi.ə.bl̩/
• (Southern US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛɚbl̩/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: in‧va‧ri‧able

Adjective

invariable (not comparable)

1. 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.

2. (mathematics) Constant.
3. (by extension, grammar, of a word, or a grammatical class) That cannot undergo inflection, conjugation or declension.

   Synonym: uninflectable

   Hyponyms: indeclinable, inconjugable

   The French adjective marron ‘brown’ is invariable: it does not take the usual s in the plural.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:invariable.

Derived terms

• invariable pendulum
• invariable plane
• invariably

 

Translations

not variable

• Bulgarian: неизменя́ем (bg) (neizmenjáem), неизменен (bg) (neizmenen)
• Catalan: invariable (ca)
• Danish: uforanderlig (da)
• Dutch: onveranderlijk (nl)
• Finnish: muuttumaton (fi)
• French: invariable (fr)
• Georgian: არაცვლადი (aracvladi), უცვლელი (ucvleli), მუდმივი (mudmivi), შეუცვლელი (šeucvleli)
• German: unveränderlich (de)
• Greek: άκλιτος (el) (áklitos)
• Irish: do-athraitheach
• Italian: invariabile (it)
• Manx: neuchaghlaaee, kinjagh, shassooagh
• Norman: învâriabl'ye (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ubøyelig (no)

• Polish: niezmienny (pl), stały (pl)
• Portuguese: invariável (pt)
• Romanian: invariabil (ro) m or n, invariabilă f, nevariabil m or n, neschimbabil m or n
• Russian: неизме́нный (ru) (neizménnyj), неизменя́емый (ru) (neizmenjájemyj)
• Swedish: oföränderlig (sv)
• Telugu: మార్పులేని (mārpulēni), జిడ్డుగాడు (jiḍḍugāḍu)
• Ukrainian: незмінний m (nezminnyj)

(mathematics) constant

• Bulgarian: постоянен (bg) (postojanen), константен (bg) (konstanten)
• Ukrainian: постійний m (postijnyj), сталий m (stalyj)

Noun

invariable (plural invariables)

1. Something that does not vary; a constant.

See also

• invariant

Catalan

Etymology

From in- +‎ variable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [im.bə.ɾiˈab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [iɱ.və.ɾiˈab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [iɱ.va.ɾiˈa.ble]

Adjective

invariable m or f (masculine and feminine plural invariables)

1. invariable

Derived terms

• invariablement

Further reading

• “invariable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “invariable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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

Etymology

From in- +‎ variable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.va.ʁjabl/

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

invariable (plural invariables)

1. invariable

Derived terms

• invariablement

Further reading

• “invariable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Spanish

Etymology

From in- +‎ variable.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

invariable m or f (masculine and feminine plural invariables)

1. invariable

Derived terms

• invariabilidad
• invariablemente

 

Further reading

• “invariable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10