immutable
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English immutable, from Latin immūtābilis (“unchangeable”); im- + mutable.
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Adjective edit
immutable (not comparable)
- Unable to be changed without exception.
- Synonym: unchangeable
- The government has enacted an immutable law.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 171:
- Mutable as is our nature, it delights in the immutable: and we expect as much constancy as if all time, to say nothing of our own changeableness, had not shewn that ever "the fashion of this world passeth away."
- 2019, Peter Kent, Tyler Bain, Cryptocurrency Mining For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 30:
- In the trustless cryptocurrency world, you can still trust the cryptocurrency community and its mechanisms to ensure that the blockchain contains an accurate and immutable—unchangeable—record of cryptocurrency transactions.
- (programming, of a variable) Not able to be altered in the memory after its value is set initially.
- Constants are immutable.
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unable to be changed without exception
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Noun edit
immutable (plural immutables)
- Something that cannot be changed.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin immūtābilis. Compare immuable.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
immutable (plural immutables)
- (rare) immutable
- Synonym: immuable
- (programming) immutable
Further reading edit
- “immutable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin immutabilis; equivalent to in- + mutable.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
immutable (Late Middle English)
Descendants edit
- English: immutable
References edit
- “immūtāble, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.