Word Finder - constant

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That which is permanent or invariable.

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

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

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

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Unchanged through time or space; permanent.

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Consistently recurring over time; persistent.

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Steady in purpose, action, feeling, etc.

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Firm; solid; not fluid.

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Consistent; logical.

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(complexity theory) Bounded above by a constant.

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constant time   constant space

Anything was better than this constant conflict.

Could she be constant in her attachments?

It was dark, but the constant lightning flashes exposed a world of wildly waving branches.

Constant repetition makes it easier to learn how to spell a word.

The enormous study was full of things evidently in constant use.

Constant practice makes the fingers very flexible, and some of my friends spell rapidly--about as fast as an expert writes on a typewriter.

The entire trip took just over an hour with the driver, a volunteer from Amarillo, Texas who never stopping his constant drawl of friendly conversation, little of which Dean heard.

While back-country skiing was also popular, the ever constant danger of killing snow slides made marked trails a safer method of enjoying this vigorous sport.

Alex and Bill had run a water line to the hutches, so they had a constant supply of fresh water.

You've been the one constant in my life since this mess started.

Only once afterward in fifteen years was their constant companionship broken for more than a few days at a time.

An IV in her arm dripped a constant dose of powerful anesthetic.

Indeed, I feel that the success is hers more than mine; for she is my constant inspiration....

Soldiers were passing in a constant stream along the street blocking it completely, so that Alpatych could not pass out and had to wait.

Thanks for your help, but around here we're waging a constant war against nature.

During these years there was constant warfare between the English and the Scots on the border, but in May 1524 Albany was obliged to retire to France.

She learned it gladly when she discovered that she could herself read what she had written; and this still affords her constant pleasure.

Sackler and DeLeo, partners for nearly 12 years, had more in common than their constant arguing would suggest.

Prince Andrew was on duty that day and in constant attendance on the commander-in-chief.

Her make-up was smeared from walking through the Monterey mists, her maid-of-honor dress wrinkled from constant sitting and standing.

You'd think the plan was to help the survivors, but I'm in a constant battle with others who want to wipe out everything east of the Mississippi and just start over.

Forced to flee by the treachery of the very men whom he had succoured, he lived for a time in constant fear of being captured by Saul, and at length took refuge with Achish king of Gath and established himself in Ziklag.

In a sleigh drawn by two gray trotting-horses that were bespattering the dashboard with snow, Anatole and his constant companion Makarin dashed past.

C. Druce's will; and the case became the subject of constant proceedings in the law-courts without result.

There was no other purr aside from the constant, low hum similar to the hum surrounding electric wires.

For reasons of health it may be assumed that no system of heating is advisable which does not provide for a constant renewal of the air in the locality warmed.

He was in constant fear of assassination and distrusted all around him.

In the article Thermodynamics it is shown that the amount of heat required to raise a given weight of a gas through a certain range of temperature is different according as the gas is maintained at constant pressure, the volume in creasing, or at constant volume, the pressure increasing.

When no external force acts, the case which we shall consider, there are three integrals of the equations of motion (i.) T =constant, x 2 +x 2 +x 2 =F 2, a constant, (iii.) x1y1 +x2y2+x3y3 =n = GF, a constant; and the dynamical equations in (3) express the fact that x, x, xs.

Numbers of Scotch sailors and of English deserters served in the Dutch fleet in this war - the bad administration of the navy and the constant ill-treatment of the crews having caused bitter discontent.

In this country, as in all others they had visited underneath the earth's surface, there was no night, a constant and strong light coming from some unknown source.

Anyone projecting an end to the historical constant of war had better be ready to overcome no small amount of justified skepticism.

Lucy eventually realized that her constant attraction the the casanova of the town could only end in disaster.

When a water jet serves as collector, the pressure under which it issues should be practically constant.

Linss (6) found that an insulated conductor charged either positively or negatively lost its charge in the free atmosphere; the potential V after time t being connected with its initial value Vo by a formula of the type V = Voe - at where a is constant.

His attention to all trade questions was close and constant; he was a member of the council of trade and plantations appointed in 1670, and was its president from 1672 to 1676.

In Ireland the game took root very gradually, but in Ulster, owing doubtless to constant intercourse with Scotland, such clubs as have been founded are strong in numbers and play.

To the saintliness of the cloister he added the wisdom of the man of the world; he was constant in misfortune, not elated by prosperity, never "carrying things to the sweating-point'," but preserving, in a time of universal corruption, unreality and self-indulgence, a nature sweet, pure, self-denying, unaffected.

An electuary of opium, known as Mithradatum, was invented by Mithradates VI., king of Pontus, who lived in constant fear of being poisoned, and tested the effects of poisons on criminals, and is said to have taken poisons and their antidotes every day in the year.

The surface-layer of the body in the massive Fungi differs in character according, to its function, which is not constant throughout the class, as in the Algae, because of the very various conditions of life to which different Fungi are exposed.

The need for a constant supply of water is partly based upon the constitution of protoplasm, so far as we know it.

This system of channels is in communication with the outer atmosphere through numerous small apertures, known as stomata, which are abundant upon the leaves and young twigs, and gaseous interchange between the plant and the air is by their assistance rendered constant and safe.

It is marked by the constant and continuous absorption of a certain quantity of oxygen and bythe exhalation of a certain volume of carbon dioxide and water vapour.

Finally, within any district of constant or fairly constant climatic conditions, it is possible to distinguish plant communities which are related chiefly to edaphic or soil conditions; and the vegetation units of these definite edaphic areas are the plant formations of some writers, and, in part, the edaphic formations of Schimper.

Many Staphylinidae are constant inmates of ants' nests.

One of the constant features of respirationthe exhalation of carbon dioxide can still be observed.

To obtain a correct idea of this region it must be borne in mind also that the course of the river and the features of the country on both banks are subject to constant fluctuation.

As this led to constant disputes, Henry VII.

To the men of the middle ages, in any case, St Catherine was very real; she was ranked with the fourteen most helpful saints in heaven, and was the constant theme of preachers and of poets.

When the value of dyldx is not very small E is no longer constant, but is rather greater in compression and rather less in extension than -yP. This can be seen by considering that the relation between p and is given by a curve and not by a straight line.