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constant

adj
/ˈkɒnstənt/UK/ˈkɑnstənt/US

Etymology

From Middle English constant, from Old French constant, from Latin constantem, accusative of constans, from cōnstāre (“to stand firm”). Displaced native Old English singal.

  1. inherited from constant

Definitions

  1. Unchanged through time or space

    Unchanged through time or space; permanent.

  2. Consistently recurring over time

    Consistently recurring over time; persistent.

  3. Steady in purpose, action, feeling, etc.

    • Both loving one fair maid, they yet remained constant friends.
    • I am constant to my purposes.
    • His gifts, his constant courtship, nothing gained.
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. Firm

      Firm; solid; not fluid.

      • If […] you mix them, you may turn these two fluid liquors into a constant body.

    2. Consistent

      Consistent; logical.

      • I am no more mad than you are: make the trial of it with any constant question.

    3. Bounded above by a constant.

      • constant time   constant space

    4. That which is permanent or invariable.

    5. A quantity that remains at a fixed value throughout a given discussion or operation.

      • We also establish that constants are local extremizers of the Tomas-Stein adjoint restriction inequality as well as of another inequality appearing in the program..

    6. Any property of an experiment, determined numerically, that does not change under given…

      Any property of an experiment, determined numerically, that does not change under given circumstances.

      • Based on their acid dissociation constants (pKa), seleneous^([sic]) acid (H2SeO3) and selenic acid (H2SeO4) are anionic under common environmental conditions [48], e.g., as selenite (SeO32−) and selenate (SeO42−).

    7. An identifier that is bound to an invariant value

      An identifier that is bound to an invariant value; a fixed value given a name to aid in readability of source code.

    8. A male given name from Latin, feminine equivalent Constance.

    9. A surname.

    10. A populated place in Saint George parish, Barbados.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at constant. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at constant. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at constant

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA