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constant
1[ kon-stuhnt ]
adjective
All conditions during the three experiments were constant.
Synonyms: permanent, immutable
Antonyms: changeable
- continuing without pause or letup; unceasing:
constant noise.
Synonyms: unremitting, perpetual
Antonyms: fitful
- regularly recurrent; continual; persistent:
He found it impossible to work with constant interruption.
Synonyms: ceaseless, incessant
Antonyms: sporadic
- faithful; unswerving in love, devotion, etc.:
a constant lover.
Synonyms: true, staunch, loyal
Antonyms: unreliable
- steadfast; firm in mind or purpose; resolute.
Synonyms: steady
- Obsolete. certain; confident.
noun
- something that does not or cannot change or vary.
- Physics. a number expressing a property, quantity, or relation that remains unchanged under specified conditions.
- Mathematics. a quantity assumed to be unchanged throughout a given discussion.
Constant
2[ kawn-stahn ]
noun
- Paul Hen·ri Ben·ja·min Bal·luat [pawl ah, n, -, ree, ba, n, -zh, a, -, man, b, a, -, lwa]. Paul d'Estournelles de Constant.
- Jean Jo·seph Ben·ja·min [zhah, n, zhaw-, zef, ba, n, -zh, a, -, man], 1845–1902, French painter.
Constant
1/ kɔ̃stɑ̃ /
noun
- ConstantBenjamin17671830MFrenchWRITING: writerPOLITICS: politician Benjamin (bɛ̃ʒamɛ̃). real name Henri Benjamin Constant de Rebecque. 1767–1830, French writer and politician: author of the psychological novel Adolphe (1816)
constant
2/ ˈkɒnstənt /
adjective
- fixed and invariable; unchanging
- continual or continuous; incessant
constant interruptions
- resolute in mind, purpose, or affection; loyal
noun
- something that is permanent or unchanging
- a specific quantity that is always invariable
the velocity of light is a constant
- maths a symbol representing an unspecified number that remains invariable throughout a particular series of operations
- physics a theoretical or experimental quantity or property that is considered invariable throughout a particular series of calculations or experiments
- See logical constant
constant
/ kŏn′stənt /
- A quantity that is unknown but assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context.
- A theoretical or experimental quantity, condition, or factor that does not vary in specified circumstances. Avogadro's number and Planck's constant are examples of constants.
constant
- A number that appears in equations and formulas and does not vary or change. Examples are Planck's constant and the speed of light .
Derived Forms
- ˈconstantly, adverb
Other Words From
- con·stant·ly adverb
- non·con·stant noun adjective
- o·ver·con·stant adjective
- o·ver·con·stant·ness noun
- qua·si-con·stant adjective
- un·con·stant adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of constant1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
For many growers, large and small, this consists of constant data entry from seed to sale.
Wetland sediment also erodes from the constant wash of waves.
It’s a constant competition and struggle between state and society.
For bacteria are engaged in constant exchange with one another.
The actual amount spent on military equipment since he became president is much less, about $444 billion in constant dollars, or about 20 percent of the total.
He not only gives out pain — he is in constant, unrelenting pain.
It was like a constant assault, an almost stupefying catalogue of mindless racial insult and injury.
The courage of this husband and father is a constant reminder of how much some sacrifice for exercising universal rights.
His constant worship of his wife stands in stark contrast to scandals of the domestic nature in other sports.
You have a pretty sexy online persona, what with the constant bikinis.
A constant sense of easy balance should be developed through poising exercises.
This new nexus of print has grown up in the lifetime of four or five generations, and it is undergoing constant changes.
His repeated coughing seemed a constant warning that at any moment he might be vanquished in the struggle for becoming silence.
Here they are seldom abundant, but their constant presence is the most reliable urinary sign of the disease.
Labor, so it was argued, was perpetually being saved by the constant introduction of new uses of machinery.
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