invariant
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Conway’s discovery of a new knot invariant — used to tell different knots apart — called the Conway polynomial became an important topic of research in topology.
From Nature
This saturation concentration has been assumed to be an invariant quantity, but, writing in Nature, Riback et al.2 demonstrate that this assumption is invalid.
From Nature
Then there are slightly more abstract symmetries, such as those of a harmonious musical chord, whose frequency patterns remain invariant when they are shifted by a fixed amount of time.
From Scientific American
The number of particles that observers will see depends on their own state of motion; it is not invariant and therefore does not qualify as an objective fact.
From Scientific American
This invariant DNA sequence occurs in a gene called doublesex; it determines sexual development in the mosquito species Anopheles gambiae, a major carrier of the malaria parasite in Africa.
From Seattle Times
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