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
“A moon is the simplest, most elegant and self-consistent hypothesis—that’s why we favor it.”
From Scientific American ● Oct. 3, 2018
But there may be no problem about going back to save a girl from being murdered, and having that girl become your mother, because it forms a self-consistent narrative.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2017
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
These figures are self-consistent, being each the sum of two practically equal constituents, and they are sufficiently numerous to be significant.
From Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded by Galton, Francis, Sir
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