kamet
- n a mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high)
invalidator
- n an official who can invalidate or nullify
my bank check was voided and I wanted to know who the invalidator was
invalidity
- n illogicality as a consequence of having a conclusion that does not follow from the premisses
invalidness
- n illogicality as a consequence of having a conclusion that does not follow from the premisses
invaluableness
- n the positive quality of being precious and beyond value
invar
- n an alloy of iron and nickel having a low coefficient of thermal expansion; used in tuning forks and measuring tapes and other instruments
invariability
- n a quality of uniformity and lack of variation
- n the quality of being resistant to variation
invariance
- n the quality of being resistant to variation
- n the nature of a quantity or property or function that remains unchanged when a given transformation is applied to it
the invariance of the configuration under translation
invasion
- n the act of invading; the act of an army that invades for conquest or plunder
- n any entry into an area not previously occupied
an invasion of tourists
an invasion of locusts - n (pathology) the spread of pathogenic microorganisms or malignant cells to new sites in the body
the tumor's invasion of surrounding structures
invasion of iwo
- n a bloody and prolonged operation on the island of Iwo Jima in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945)