Meaning & use
immutable
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Unable to be changed over time or in any circumstance.
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Physicists once considered the laws of nature to be immutable.
In some programming languages, certain data types are immutable once created.
A note on using this word
Common in philosophy, law, and computer science when describing something fixed by design or nature.
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