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invariable

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in- +‎ variable

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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.

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invariable (plural invariables)

  1. Something that does not vary; a constant.

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  1. ^ 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, →DOI, →ISBN, § II.2, page 46.

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From in- +‎ variable.

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invariable m or f (masculine and feminine plural invariables)

  1. invariable

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From in- +‎ variable.

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invariable (plural invariables)

  1. invariable

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Etymology edit

From in- +‎ variable.

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

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invariable m or f (masculine and feminine plural invariables)

  1. invariable

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