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
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
The main character is a snide demon with a vicious sense of humor, and the books lay out a mechanism for magic that is self-consistent and logical within its own world.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2014
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
The work of Sydenham had contributed much to the political education of Canada; popular opinion was now firmer and more self-consistent, and that opinion went directly contrary to the views of Stanley and his supporters.
From British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by J. L. (John Lyle) Morison
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