invariable

in- +‎ variable

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛɹ.i.ə.bl̩/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛə.ɹi.ə.bl̩/
• (Southern American English) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛɚbl̩/[1]

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• Hyphenation: in‧va‧ri‧able

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.

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

invariable (plural invariables)

1. Something that does not vary; a constant.

• invariant

From in- +‎ variable.

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

invariable m or f (masculine and feminine plural invariables)

1. invariable

• invariablement

• “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.

From in- +‎ variable.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.va.ʁjabl/

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invariable (plural invariables)

1. invariable

• invariablement

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

From in- +‎ variable.

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

invariable m or f (masculine and feminine plural invariables)

1. invariable

• “invariable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014