Definitions For Contravariance

Noun

CONTRAVARIANCE. (countable and uncountable, plural CONTRAVARIANCEs) (object-oriented programming) The reversal of the order of data types acted upon by an operator. : {{cot, en, covariance}} (category theory) A functor which reverses composition. (linear algebra) Of vectors, the property of scaling inversely with a change of basis, as opposed to covariance.

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Translations

Chinese: : Mandarin: 逆變, tr=nìbiàn Finnish: kontravarianssi French: contravariance, f German: Kontravarianz, f Kazakh: контраварианттық Portuguese: contravariância, f Romanian: contravarianță, f Russian: контравариантность, f Finnish: kontravarianssi German: Kofunktor, m

Etymology

{{af, en, contra-, variance}}

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