Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Lack of variability or of liability to change; invariableness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being invariable; invariableness; constancy; uniformity.

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  • noun The quality of being invariable; invariableness; constancy; uniformity.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a quality of uniformity and lack of variation
  • noun the quality of being resistant to variation

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Examples

  • In his early years, Linnaeus believed that the species was not only real, but unchangeable — as he wrote, Unitas in omni specie ordinem ducit (The invariability of species is the condition for order [in nature]).

    At What Level did this Evolve? 2009

  • So there is, as we might put it, a core of invariability surrounded by a variable periphery.

    Moral Particularism Dancy, Jonathan 2009

  • Still, despite his concerns with Bush's abuses, he explained that he does not support impeachment, because of the timing, not enough time before the election and the regrettable invariability of the process becoming even further political.

    Notes from the Non-Impeachment Hearings 2008

  • The theory of the French writer is that Ibsen's constant aim is to reconcile and to conciliate the two biological hypotheses which have divided opinion in the nineteenth century, and which are known respectively by the names of Cuvier and Lamarck; namely, that of the invariability of species and that of the mutability of organic forms.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • The theory of the French writer is that Ibsen's constant aim is to reconcile and to conciliate the two biological hypotheses which have divided opinion in the nineteenth century, and which are known respectively by the names of Cuvier and Lamarck; namely, that of the invariability of species and that of the mutability of organic forms.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • This situation is far from ideal, but the alternative, using data after 1960 and thus incorporating non-temperature- related bias when fitting regression equations as a function of density variability,would invariability produce earlier estimates of past temperature that, to some extent, too warm. esceptico

    What is "Consensus Science" for Proxies? « Climate Audit 2007

  • One has to assume, for example, that a word will mean tomorrow what it means today and what it meant yesterday, just as the scientist has to assume the invariability of natural law, which could never be proven, in order to apply the laws of physics at all.

    "It is better to receive than to give... at least when the subject is guns." Ann Althouse 2007

  • This situation is far from ideal, but the alternative, using dataafter 1960 and thus incorporating non-temperature- related bias when fitting regression equations as a function of density variability, would invariability produce earlier estimates of past temperature that, to some extent, too warm.

    Bristlecones, Foxtails and Temperature « Climate Audit 2006

  • This situation is far from ideal, but the alternative … would invariability produce earlier estimates of past temperature that, to some extent, too warm.

    Bristlecones and Sagebrush « Climate Audit 2006

  • The Cartesian philosophy posited two fundamental axioms—the supremacy of reason and the invariability of the laws of nature.

    Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

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