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COVARIANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does covariant mean?
• COVARIANT (adjective)
The adjective COVARIANT has 1 sense:
1. changing so that interrelations with another variable quantity or set of quantities remain unchanged
Familiarity information: COVARIANT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Changing so that interrelations with another variable quantity or set of quantities remain unchanged
Similar:
variable (liable to or capable of change)
Derivation:
covariance ((statistics) the mean value of the product of the deviations of two variates from their respective means)
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