constant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English constant, from Old French constant, from Latin constantem, accusative of constans, from cōnstāre (“to stand firm”). Displaced native Old English singal.
Inflected forms:
form: more constant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most constant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: constants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Unchanged through time or space; permanent.
pos: adj
gloss: Consistently recurring over time; persistent.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Steady in purpose, action, feeling, etc.
pos: adj
examples: Both loving one fair maid, they yet remained constant friends.
I am constant to my purposes.
His gifts, his constant courtship, nothing gained.
gloss: Firm; solid; not fluid.
pos: adj
examples: If […] you mix them, you may turn these two fluid liquors into a constant body.
gloss: Consistent; logical.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: I am no more mad than you are: make the trial of it with any constant question.
gloss: Bounded above by a constant.
pos: adj
examples: constant time   constant space
gloss: That which is permanent or invariable.
pos: noun
gloss: A quantity that remains at a fixed value throughout a given discussion or operation.
pos: noun
examples: 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..
gloss: Any property of an experiment, determined numerically, that does not change under given circumstances.
pos: noun
examples: 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−).
gloss: An identifier that is bound to an invariant value; a fixed value given a name to aid in readability of source code.
pos: noun
Synonyms: unaltering
unvarying
Related words: constantly
constancy
literal
Derived words: constantive
constant morphism
constantness
constant speed drive
constant speedism
constant-speed propeller
constant time
constant-velocity
constant velocity
constant-wear garment
multiconstant
nonconstant
thermoconstant
unconstant
uniconstant
constant of integration
absolute constant
acid dissociation constant
Apéry's constant
Archimedes' constant
Avogadro constant
Avogadro's constant
Boltzmann constant
Boltzmann's constant
Brun's constant
Catalan's constant
Chaitin's constant
Champernowne constant
constant function
constant problem
Conway's constant
Copeland-Erdős constant
cosmological constant
Coulomb's constant
de Bruijn-Newman constant
decay constant
dielectric constant
Dirac constant
Dirac's constant
Einstein constant
Einstein's constant
equilibrium constant
Euler-Mascheroni constant
Feigenbaum constant
fine structure constant
fine-structure constant
Fransén-Robinson constant
fundamental constant
gas constant
Gelfond's constant
gravitational constant
Henry's law constant
Hubble constant
Hubble's constant
Landau-Ramanujan constant
lattice constant
Legendre's constant
Lipschitz constant
Lizardman's Constant
logical constant
Ludolph's constant
Madelung constant
magic constant
Marchetti's constant
Napier's constant
physical constant
Planck constant
Planck's constant
propagation constant
propositional constant
Ramanujan's constant
rate constant
reaction rate constant
Rydberg constant
screening constant
separation constant
shielding constant
sofa constant
solar constant
Sommerfeld's constant
spring constant
Stefan-Boltzmann constant
Stieltjes constant
symbolic constant
time constant
Verdet constant
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