covariant Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective satellite changing so that interrelations with another variable quantity or set of quantities remain unchanged

(Higher Alg.) A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic.