different between fixed vs invariable

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?kst/
• Rhymes: -?kst

Verb

fixed

1. simple past tense and past participle of fix

Adjective

fixed (comparative more fixed, superlative most fixed)

1. Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.

   fixed assets

   I work fixed hours for a fixed salary.

   Every religion has its own fixed ideas.

   He looked at me with a fixed glare.

2. Stationary.
3. Attached; affixed.
5. Chemically stable.
6. Supplied with what one needs.

   She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.

7. (law) Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.

   In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972.

8. (dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).

   a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixed

9. Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
10. (of a problem) Resolved; corrected.
11. Repaired

Synonyms

• (not able to be changed, staying the same): stable, immobile

Antonyms

• (not able to be changed, staying the same): mobile

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• broken
• crooked
• bribe

Anagrams

• defix

English

Etymology

in- +? variable

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?v??.i.?.bl?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?v??.?i.?.bl?/
• Hyphenation: in?va?ri?able

Adjective

invariable (not comparable)

1. Not variable; unalterable; uniform; always having the same value.
   • 1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilisation

     Physical laws which are invariable.

   • “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action.

2. (mathematics) Constant.
3. (by extension, grammar, of a word, or a grammatical class) That cannot undergo inflection, conjugation or declension.

   Synonym: uninflectable

   Hyponyms: indeclinable, inconjugable

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:invariable.

Translations

Noun

invariable (plural invariables)

1. Something that does not vary; a constant.

See also

• invariant

Catalan

Etymology

in- +? variable

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /im.v?.?i?a.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /im.b?.?i?a.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /im.va.?i?a.ble/

Adjective

invariable (masculine and feminine plural invariables)

1. invariable

Derived terms

• invariablement

Further reading

• “invariable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “invariable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “invariable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “invariable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

in- +? variable

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.va.?jabl/

Adjective

invariable (plural invariables)

1. invariable

Derived terms

• invariablement

Further reading

• “invariable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Etymology

in- +? variable

Adjective

invariable (plural invariables)

1. invariable

Derived terms

• invariablemente

Further reading

• “invariable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.