Usually means: Changes consistently with coordinate transformations.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. covariant: Merriam-Webster
  2. covariant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. covariant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. covariant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. covariant: Vocabulary.com
  6. covariant: Wordnik
  7. covariant: Wiktionary
  8. covariant: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Covariant, covariant: Dictionary.com
  10. Covariant (invariant theory), Covariant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Covariant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. covariant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Covariant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. covariant: FreeDictionary.org
  15. covariant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. covariant: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. covariant: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Covariant: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Covariant: Extragalactic Astronomy

Definitions from Wiktionary (covariant)

adjective:  (category theory, of a functor) Which preserves the order of morphism composition: formally, which associates each morphism f:X→Y to a morphism F(f):F(X)→F(Y).
adjective:  (object-oriented programming) Using or relating to covariance.
noun:  (algebra) A bihomogeneous polynomial in x, y, ... and the coefficients of some homogeneous form in x, y, ... that is invariant under some group of linear transformations.
noun:  (algebra) The variety defined by a covariant.

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