covariant

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Adjective

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co=var=i=ant

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective covariant has 1 sense

covariant(s = adj.all) - changing so that interrelations with another variable quantity or set of quantities remain unchanged;

Derived form noun covariance₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

covariant, n.

A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic. [1913 Webster]