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Vinony

invariant

adjective

  1. constant, not changing
  2. condition that can be relied upon to be true during execution of a program, or during some portion of it
L36917 on Wikidata ↗

noun

  1. something which does not change
L36918 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English variant English invariant From in- + variant.

  1. Not varying; constant.
  2. Unaffected by a specified operation, especially by a transformation.

    “The fundamental 2-tensor also leads to a new class of invariant linear differential operators that are canonically associated to these geometries; included is a third equation studied by Gallot et al. We apply the results to study the metrisability equation, in the nullity setting described.”

  3. Neither covariant nor contravariant.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English variant English invariant From in- + variant.

  1. An invariant quantity, function etc.

    “In the present paper this criterion is reformulated in terms of pseudotensorial invariants of the form..”

  2. Ellipsis of class invariant.