invariant
pronunciation
How to pronounce invariant in British English:
UK [ɪnˈveəriənt]
How to pronounce invariant in American English:
US [ɪnˈveriənt]
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- Adjective:
- unaffected by a designated operation or transformation
- persistent in occurrence and unvarying in nature
Word Origin
- invariant (adj.)
- 1851, from in- (1) "not" + variant.
Example
- 1. He found that these neural avalanches are scale invariant and that their size obeys a power law .
- 2. The avalanches are " scale invariant " , which means that avalanches of all possible sizes occur .
- 3. But once ' humanity ' becomes a variant set of populations rather than an invariant essence , it loses its obviousness as a standard of value .
- 4. In studies with germ-free mice , described in a science paper published earlier this year , blumberg and his colleagues found the absence of intestinal microbes triggers production of a signaling molecule called cxcl16 , which in turn stimulates high levels of immune cells called invariant natural killer t cells .
- 5. To gauge this significance , gurzadyan compared the observed circles with a simulation of the cosmic microwave background in which temperature fluctuations were completely scale invariant , meaning that their abundance was independent of their size .