self-consistent
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of self-consistent
First recorded in 1675–85
Example Sentences
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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
What emerges is a self-consistent picture that lets a black hole retain its regular structure as predicted by general relativity, albeit with the presence of an implicit though powerful nonlocality.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 22, 2022
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
Admitted an intense aching concentration of thought; how be self-consistent, unless uttering words condensed to the limits of language?—And let us at last say: Read Sordello again.
From The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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