constant — ozdic

Collocations

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1

(adj.)

VERBS

be

remain, stay

Her interest in music has stayed constant since she was a child.

hold sth

She held her speed constant throughout the entire marathon race.

keep sth

We kept the room temperature constant throughout the experiment so the results would be accurate.

ADV

remarkably | absolutely | almost, nearly, virtually | fairly, reasonably, relatively | more or less, roughly

PREP

across

The temperature remained constant across all rooms in the house throughout the winter.

Definitions

adj

1

Unchanged through time or space; permanent.

2

Consistently recurring over time; persistent.

The constant pinging of electronic devices is driving many people to the end of their tether. Electronic devices not only overload the senses and invade leisure time. They feed on themselves: the more people tweet the more they are rewarded with followers and retweets.

3

Steady in purpose, action, feeling, etc.

Both loving one fair maid, they yet remained constant friends.

I am constant to my purposes.

4

Firm; solid; not fluid.

If […] you mix them, you may turn these two fluid liquors into a constant body.

5

Consistent; logical.

I am no more mad than you are: make the trial of it with any constant question.

noun

1

That which is permanent or invariable.

2

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..

3

Any property of an experiment, determined numerically, that does not change under given circumstances.

Based on their acid dissociation constants (pKa), seleneous^([sic]) acid (H2SeO3) and selenic acid (H2SeO4) are anionic under common environmental conditions [48], e.g., as selenite (SeO32−) and selenate (SeO42−).

4

An identifier that is bound to an invariant value; a fixed value given a name to aid in readability of source code.

name

1

A male given name from Latin, feminine equivalent Constance.

2

A surname.

3

A populated place in Saint George parish, Barbados.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a quantity that does not vary

invariable

adjective — uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing

ceaseless
incessant
never-ending
perpetual
unceasing
unremitting

adjective — unvarying in nature

changeless
invariant
unvarying

Antonyms

inconstant

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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The constant pinging of electronic devices is driving many people to the end of their tether. Electronic devices not only overload the senses and invade leisure time. They feed on themselves: the more

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02

Both loving one fair maid, they yet remained constant friends.

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03

I am constant to my purposes.

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04

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..

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Based on their acid dissociation constants (pKa), seleneous^([sic]) acid (H2SeO3) and selenic acid (H2SeO4) are anionic under common environmental conditions [48], e.g., as selenite (SeO32−) and selen

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Despite Trang's constant affirmations of love, Spenser is still afraid someday she will fall out of love with him.

Tatoeba · #1908

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, constant is marked as obsolete, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.