immutable

English

Etymology

From French, ultimately from Latin immūtābilis (“unchangable”); im- +‎ mutable

Adjective

immutable (not comparable)

1. unable to be changed without exception.

   The government has enacted an immutable law.

2. (programming, of a variable) not able to be altered in the memory after its value is set initially.

   Constants are immutable.

Antonyms

• mutable
• nonimmutable

Derived terms

• strongly immutable
• weakly immutable

 

Translations

unable to be changed without exception

• Bulgarian: неизменен (bg) (neizmenen), неотменим (bg) (neotmenim)
• Catalan: immutable (ca)
• Czech: nezměnitelný m
• German: unveränderbar (de), unveränderlich (de)
• Japanese: 不変の (ja) (ふへんの, fuhen no)
• Portuguese: imutável (pt)

• Romanian: imuabil (ro)
• Russian: неизме́нный (ru) (neizménnyj), непрело́жный (ru) (neprelóžnyj), постоя́нный (ru) (postojánnyj)
• Spanish: inmutable (es)
• Swedish: oföränderlig (sv)
• Turkish: değişmez (tr), sabit (tr)

Noun

immutable (plural immutables)

1. something that cannot be changed

Anagrams

• multibeam

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.my.tabl/

Adjective

immutable (plural immutables)

1. immutable
2. (programming) immutable

Further reading

• “immutable” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).