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contravariant

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.60 in modern English

Syllables
con-travari-ant
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Which reverses the order of morphism composition: formally, which associates each morphism f:X→Y to a morphism F(f):F(Y)→F(X).

adj

Using or relating to contravariance.

adj

Scaling inversely with a change of basis.

noun

A bihomogeneous polynomial in dual variables of x, y, ... and the coefficients of some homogeneous form in x, y, ... that is invariant under some group of linear transformations.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrābor. English contra- English variant English contravariant From contra- + variant.

Inflected Forms

contravariants (plural)

Derived Forms

contravariantly contravector

Antonyms

covariant

Questions

What does contravariant mean?
Which reverses the order of morphism composition: formally, which associates each morphism f:X→Y to a morphism F(f):F(Y)→F(X).
Where does contravariant come from?
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrābor. English contra- English variant English contravariant From contra- + variant.

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