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Invariance

Definition: Invariance

Invariance

Noun

1. The quality of being resistant to variation.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Invariance

DomainDefinitions

Mathematics

This term is mostly used in statistics in its mathematical sense, namely to denote a property that is not changed by a particular transformation. Source: European Union. (references)

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Synonyms: Invariance

Synonyms: invariability (n), invariableness (n). (additional references)
Antonym: variability (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Invariance

DomainTitle

Books

  • Conformal Invariance and Critical Phenomena (Texts and Monographs in Physics) (reference)

  • Group Invariance in Engineering Boundary Value Problems (reference)

  • Scale Invariance, Interfaces, and Non-Equilibrium Dynamics (NATO Asi Series B, Physics, Vol 344) (reference)

  • Tangency, Flow Invariance for Differential Equations, and Optimization Problems (Pure and Applied Mathematics, 219) (reference)

  • The Quarrel Between Invariance and Flux: A Guide for Philosphers and Other Players (Studies of the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: Invariance

"Invariance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Invariance" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2372,767

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Invariance

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "invariance": non-invariance.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Invariance

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

criticality discrete invariance organized scale self

3

invariance

2
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Modern Translations: Invariance

Language Translations for "invariance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

不变性. (various references)

   

Danish

  

invarians. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

invariantie. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

invarianssi. (various references)

   

French

  

invariance. (various references)

   

German

  

Invarianz, Beständigkeit (consistency, constancy, continualness, durability, firmness, fixity, perpetualness, resistance, resistiveness, stability, steadiness, vitality). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αμεταβλητότητα, το αναλλοίωτο. (various references)

   

Italian

  

invarianza. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

不変性 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふへ"せい (catholicity, omnipresence, ubiquity, universality). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

불변성 (Constancy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

invarianceay

   

Portuguese

  

invariância. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

инвариантность. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

invariancia. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

invarians. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Invariance

Derivations

Words beginning with "invariance": invariances. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Invariance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: invarience, Inverinate, ivorienne. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Invariance"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "invariance" (pronounced i'nve"rēuns)
7-v e" r ē u n svariance.
5-r ē u n sexperience, inexperience.
4-ē u n sambiance, ambience, audience, dalliance, deviance, disobedience, expedience, obedience, prescience, radiance, resilience, subservience, transience.
3-u n sabeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence.

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Anagrams: Invariance

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-i-n-n-r-v"

-2 letters: nirvanic, variance.

-3 letters: acarine, avarice, cannier, carinae, caviare, cinerin, narcein, nirvana.

-4 letters: acinar, arcane, arnica, canine, canner, cannie, carina, carnie, carven, cavern, caviar, crania, craven, encina, inaner, irenic, naiver, narine, niacin, ravine, vainer, vanner, vinier.

-5 letters: acari, acini, aecia, aiver, anear, areca, areic, arena, avian, cairn, caner, canna, carve, caver, cavie, ceria, civie, crane.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-i-n-n-r-v"
 

+1 letter: invariances.

 

+3 letters: revaccinating, revaccination.

 

+4 letters: nonradioactive, revaccinations.

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Alternative Orthography: Invariance


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6E 76 61 72 69 61 6E 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101110 01110110 01100001 01110010 01101001 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#110 &#118 &#97 &#114 &#105 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006E 0076 0061 0072 0069 0061 006E 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

43808867847567806971

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Invariance"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Chinese

字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kineser, kiinalainen, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, chinês, китайский, китаец, chino, kinesisk

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse丹麦语, tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, 덴마크, dinamarquês, датский, danés, dansk

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatie菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, 네덜란", holandês, голландский, holandés, holländsk

Finnish

määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finlandese, 핀란", finlandês, finês, финский, finlandés, finés, finsk

French

dictionnaire, définition, traduction法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , "랑스, francês, французский, francés, fransk, franska

German

wörterbuch, Übersetzung德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, alemão, немецкий, alemán, tysk

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση希腊语, 希臘語 , græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, grego, греческий, грек, griego, grek

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzione意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, 이탈리아, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italiensk, italienska, italienare

Japanese Kanji

辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonês, японский, японец, japonés, japansk

Japanese Katakana

じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonês, японский, японец, japonés, japansk

Korean

사 , 의, 번역韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , Koreaans, coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, 한국, coréia, a língua coreana, кореец, корейский, coreano, koreansk

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, tradução葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, português, португальский, portugués, portugis

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, russer, venäläinen, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, русский, ruso, ryss

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducción西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, espanhol, испанский, español, spanska språk, spansk

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning瑞典語 , 瑞典语, Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, шведский, sueco, svensk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translation英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, 영국, inglês, английский, inglés, engelsk
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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