_immutable_の英語

発音

形容詞

immutable (not comparable)

1. Unable to be changed without exception.

   Synonyms: unchangeable; see also Thesaurus:immutable

   The government has enacted an immutable law.

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 171:

     Mutable as is our nature, it delights in the immutable: and we expect as much constancy as if all time, to say nothing of our own changeableness, had not shewn that ever "the fashion of this world passeth away."

   • 2019, Peter Kent, Tyler Bain, Cryptocurrency Mining For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 30:

     In the trustless cryptocurrency world, you can still trust the cryptocurrency community and its mechanisms to ensure that the blockchain contains an accurate and immutable—unchangeable—record of cryptocurrency transactions.

2. (programming, of a variable) Not able to be altered in the memory after its value is set initially.

   Constants are immutable.

反意語

• mutable
• nonimmutable

派生語

名詞

immutable (plural immutables)

1. Something that cannot be changed.

アナグラム

• multibeam

語源

Borrowed from Latin immutabilis; equivalent to in- +‎ mutable.

発音

• IPA: /i(n)ˌmiu̯ˈtaːbəl/, /i(n)ˌmiu̯ˈtaːblə/

形容詞

immutable (Late Middle English)

1. immutable, unchangeable

派生した語

• English: immutable

参照

• “immūtāble, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.