self-consistent
Americannoun
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Origin of self-consistent
First recorded in 1675–85
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With this definition, both laws of thermodynamics remain valid, showing that the framework is self-consistent.
From Science Daily • Dec. 23, 2025
The view is disorienting because we tend to think of immigration agendas as singular and self-consistent.
From Slate • Jun. 30, 2021
It is something like exploring a self-consistent field of mathematics, with its axioms and rules of logic that are not consistent with nature.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Here was what Bell had been groping for, on and off since his student days: some quantitative means of distinguishing Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics from other coherent, self-consistent possibilities.
From Scientific American • Jan. 30, 2012
We could develop a geometry in which distances which seem subjectively equal to our eye are called equal, and upon this assumption we would be able to develop a self-consistent system or science.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
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