UNCHANGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unchanged mean? 

• UNCHANGED (adjective)
  The adjective UNCHANGED has 2 senses:

1. not made or become different

2. remaining in an original state

  Familiarity information: UNCHANGED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCHANGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not made or become different

Context example:

the causes that produced them have remained unchanged

Similar:

idempotent (unchanged in value following multiplication by itself)

same (unchanged in character or nature)

Also:

unvaried; unvarying (lacking variety)

Antonym:

changed (made or become different in nature or form)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remaining in an original state

Synonyms:

unaltered; unchanged

Context example:

persisting unaltered through time

Similar:

dateless; timeless (unaffected by time)

in-situ; in situ; unmoved (being in the original position; not having been moved)

unedited (not changed by editing)

unreduced (not altered by reduction)

unrevised (not improved or brought up to date)

 Context examples 

If any hurt should come to me, remember that the last words I left for her was, My unchanged love is with my darling child, and I forgive her!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The maintenance of certain characteristics in an unchanged condition.

(Conservation, NCI Thesaurus)

During this process the variable coding region of the heavy chain remains unchanged, thus retaining antigen specificity.

(Immunoglobulin Class Switch Recombination, NCI Thesaurus)

In an unchanged or similar condition.

(About The Same, NCI Thesaurus)

Acceleration of a chemical reaction induced by the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction.

(Catalysis, NCI Thesaurus)

Betrixaban is primarily excreted unchanged in the bile and has a half life of about 19 hours.

(Betrixaban, NCI Thesaurus)

Chlorothiazide is excreted unchanged by the kidneys.

(Chlorothiazide, NCI Thesaurus)

Carmegliptin shows extensive tissue distribution and is excreted unchanged in the urine and bile.

(Carmegliptin, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon intake of deuterated 3-methylhistidine (3-MH), this agent is incorporated into muscle protein and then is subsequently excreted unchanged in the urine.

(Deuterated 3-Methylhistidine, NCI Thesaurus)

Iobitridol is rapidly removed by the kidneys in an unchanged form, and in cases of renal failure, heterotropic excretion occurs via the biliary route.

(Iobitridol, NCI Thesaurus)