Definition of Invariance

1. Noun. The quality of being resistant to variation.

2. Noun. 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"
Generic synonyms: Constancy, Stability
Category relationships: Math, Mathematics, Maths
Derivative terms: Invariant

Definition of Invariance

1. n. The property of remaining invariable under prescribed or implied conditions.

Definition of Invariance

1. Noun. the property of being invariant ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Medical Definition of Invariance

1. The property of remaining invariable under prescribed or implied conditions. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Invariance

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Literary usage of Invariance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom; Lectures for Educated by Cassius Jackson Keyser (1922)
"Among these are function, relation, transformation, invariance and group. In Lecture X we saw that the first three denote three aspects of one and the same ..."

2. The Cambridge Colloquium 1916 by Griffith Conrad Evans, Oswald Veblen (1918)
"invariance of the Connectivities R. 42. We are now ready to prove the invariance ... This invariance is obvious for R0 because RQ is the number of connected ..."

3. State of the Art in Probability and Statistics: Festschrift for Willem R by Mathisca de Gunst, Chris Klaassen, A. W. van der Vaart (2001)
"Keywords and phrases: Conformal invariance, droplet, large deviations, entanglement, percolation, Ising model, Potts model, random-cluster model. ..."

4. Yang-Mills, Kaluza-Klein, and the Einstein Program by Robert Hermann (1978)
"COHOMOLOGY AND GAUGE invariance AND THE CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS FOR PARTICLE ... “gauge invariance” (and associated topological material) generalizing the ..."

5. Dynamics & Stochastics: Festschrift in Honour of M.S. Keane by Dee Denteneer, F. den Hollander, M. S. Keane, Evgeny Verbitskiy (2006)
"Introduction and main results Strong invariance principles are limit theorems concerning strong approximation for partial sums process of some random ..."

6. Isolation and Aggregation in Economics by Ekkehart Schlicht (1985)
"... the coefficients describing the interaction of economic variables remain unchanged over time. This might be termed the classical invariance premise. ..."

7. A Festschrift for Herman Rubin by Anirban DasGupta, Herman Rubin (2004)
"... France Keywords and phrases: invariant measure, harmonic measure, Brownian motion, conformal invariance, Cauchy distribution, inner function. ..."

8. Analytic Statistical Models by Ib M. Skovgaard (1990)
"6 invariance properties The title of this section refers to operations on analytic models that lead to other analytic models - not to invariance of the ..."