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From Middle English immutable, from Latin immūtābilis (“unchangeable”); im- + mutable.
immutable (not comparable)
- 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.
- (programming, of a variable) Not able to be altered in the memory after its value is set initially.
unable to be changed without exception
- Bulgarian: неизменен (bg) (neizmenen), неотменим (bg) (neotmenim)
- Catalan: immutable (ca)
- Czech: nezměnitelný m
- Dutch: onveranderlijk (nl)
- Finnish: muuttumaton (fi)
- French: immuable (fr)
- Galician: inmutábel (gl), inmutable (gl)
- Georgian: უცვლელი (ucvleli), დაურღვეველი (daurɣveveli), გარდაუვალი (gardauvali)
- German: unveränderbar (de), unveränderlich (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἀμετάθετος (ametáthetos)
- Japanese: 不変の (ja) (ふへんの, fuhen no)
- Middle English: immutable
- Persian: دگرشناپذیر (fa)
- Plautdietsch: onve'endalich
- Polish: niezmienny (pl)
- Portuguese: imutável (pt)
- Romanian: imuabil (ro), neschimbător (ro)
- Russian: неизме́нный (ru) (neizménnyj), непрело́жный (ru) (neprelóžnyj), постоя́нный (ru) (postojánnyj)
- Spanish: inmutable (es)
- Swedish: oföränderlig (sv)
- Turkish: değişmez (tr), sabit (tr)
immutable (plural immutables)
- Something that cannot be changed.
Learned borrowing from Latin immūtābilis. Compare immuable.
immutable (plural immutables)
- (rare) immutable
- Synonym: immuable
- (programming) immutable
- “immutable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Borrowed from Latin immutabilis; equivalent to in- + mutable.
immutable (Late Middle English)
- English: immutable
- “immūtāble, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.