invariance

1. 1.

   the quality of being resistant to variation

   Synonymsinvariabilityinvariableness

   Broaderchangelessness

   Narrowerunvariedness
2. 2.

   the nature of a quantity or property or function that remains unchanged when a given transformation is applied to it

   “the invariance of the configuration under translation”

   Broaderconstancy

   mathematics

Other forms of invariance

plural

invariances·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about invariance

What does invariance mean?

invariance means "the quality of being resistant to variation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in invariance?

invariance has 4 syllables: in-var-i-ance. The stress falls on "var". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈvɛɹiəns/.

What is another word for invariance?

Close synonyms include invariability, invariableness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is invariance a common word?

invariance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with invariance?

1 word rhymes with invariance. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.