Sekirov Dictionary

constant

UK /ˈkɒnstənt/US /ˈkɑnstənt/

adjective 6
noun 4
forms 3

adjective6

Unchanged through time or space; permanent.
going on again and again, and not stopping for long
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Steady in purpose, action, feeling, etc.
- Both loving one fair maid, they yet remained constant friends. — 1580
Bounded above by a constant.
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Firm; solid; not fluid.
- If […] you mix them, you may turn these two fluid liquors into a constant body. — 1659
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(no longer used) Consistent; logical.
- I am no more mad than you are: make the trial of it with any constant question. — 1601

noun4

That which is permanent or invariable.
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A quantity that remains at a fixed value throughout a given discussion or operation.
- We also establish that constants are local extremizers of the Tomas-Stein adjoint restriction inequality as well as of another inequality appearing in the program.. — 2015
Any property of an experiment, determined numerically, that does not change under given circumstances.
An identifier that is bound to an invariant value; a fixed value given a name to aid in readability of source code.

forms

constants · more constant · most constant

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