How to Use invariant in a Sentence

invariant

adjective
  • That makes three-coloring a knot invariant.
    — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2026
  • For example, has the advantage to height been invariant at all times and places?
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2011
  • According to Einstein, time isn’t a rigid, invariant backdrop.
    — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2021
  • And the position of words within this vector space is largely invariant across different languages.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2024
  • So far, the Conway knot has fallen in the blind spot of every invariant mathematicians have come up with to study sliceness.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2 June 2020
  • Both theories were scale invariant, meaning the physics of the systems the theories described didn't change as the systems got larger or smaller.
    — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The point is that warfare, although extremely important in some social contexts (such as when building up states and empires), is not invariant.
    — Michael Mann, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2012
  • That's due to another symmetry -- the laws of physics are invariant under translations (changes of position).
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2012
  • Here, the forward invariant set can be loosely interpreted as the region of attraction for the discrete-time dynamics.
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 17 May 2024
  • This is because of its host-mimetic feature that copies the invariant attachment site common to all of these viruses, the S-PG.
    — Kansas City Star, 24 June 2024
  • All of them were interested, for different reasons, in computing a quantity called the d-invariant, which appears in many areas of math.
    — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2026
  • There is no obvious reason why this particular bundle is either optimal or invariant.
    — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • Those proofs are invariant across individuals and subcultures.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2013
  • Topology concerns global, invariant properties of such spaces that can’t be changed by local deformations.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Jan. 2018
  • These orientation fields act as a smooth scaffold for interaction, allowing tasks to be expressed as simple, shape-invariant actions like sliding or probing.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The whole quantum formalism of a single bit, is invariant under 3 dimensional rotations.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2011
  • What’s needed instead are invariant principles—design choices that survive model upgrades because they’re engineered into the harness, not the model.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 June 2026
  • To build the therapy, researchers took human stem cells and turned them into a special type of immune cell called an invariant natural killer T cell (NKT cell).
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Finally, some of the genes which explain differences between populations are invariant within a population.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2011
  • Scientists and philosophers began to seek objectivity in structures, the invariant relationships between things.
    — Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
  • Scientists often describe symmetries as changes that don’t really change anything, differences that don’t make a difference, variations that leave deep relationships invariant.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2019
  • Scientists often describe symmetries as changes that don’t really change anything, differences that don’t make a difference, variations that leave deep relationships invariant.
    — Wired, 14 July 2019
  • Hybrid analysis methodologies that focus on invariant components of the malware are essential for effective detection and mitigation.
    — John Chirillo, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The d-invariant associated with two permutations is, loosely speaking, a measure of the complexity of their Bruhat interval’s underlying structure.
    — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Each will have a topological invariant, certain topological information associated to it.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
  • This development follows a generally invariant sequence validated across cultures.
    — Aurelien Mangano, Forbes.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • All models are highly ISO-invariant above ISO 800, thanks to a dual gain switch, which enables flexible shadow recovery without noise penalties.
    — James Abbott, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2026
  • One of our summer interns, Hsiao-Yu Fish Tung, is actually working on making the vision model fully invariant to camera placement using the same basic technique of randomizing the camera pose and orientation over a wide range.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Einstein’s 1905 papers on relativity led to the unmistakable conclusion, for example, that the relationship between energy and mass is invariant, even though energy and mass themselves can take vastly different forms.
    — Wired, 14 July 2019
  • Einstein’s 1905 papers on relativity led to the unmistakable conclusion, for example, that the relationship between energy and mass is invariant, even though energy and mass themselves can take vastly different forms.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2019

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