According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.
INVARIANT
changeless, constant, invariant, unvarying
(adjective) unvarying in nature; “maintained a constant temperature”; “principles of unvarying validity”
invariant
(adjective) unaffected by a designated operation or transformation
invariant
(noun) a feature (quantity or property or function) that remains unchanged when a particular transformation is applied to it
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
invariant (comparative more invariant, superlative most invariant)
not varying; constant
(mathematics) Unaffected by a specified operation (especially by a transformation)
(computing, programming) Neither covariant nor contravariant.
Synonyms
• (not varying): invariable
Noun
invariant (plural invariants)
An invariant quantity, function etc.
Source: Wiktionary
In*va"ri*ant, n. (Math.)
Definition: An invariable quantity; specifically, a function of the coefficients of one or more forms, which remains unaltered, when these undergo suitable linear transformations. J. J. Sylvester.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INITIALISM
(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
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