constant


Definition: Meaning of, constant in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈkɒnst(ə)nt /

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  1. happening regularly or all the time
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  2. staying the same
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  3. literary loyal and faithful
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constant constants
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  1. technical a number or quantity that never changes
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  2. formal something that stays the same even though other things change
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constant used in phrases

  • Boltzmann's constant (noun)
    1. constant used in the calculation of the ideal gas constant
  • Constant Lambert (noun)
    1. 1905-1951 english composer and conductor
  • Hubble constant (noun)
    1. due to the expansion of the universe cosmology the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy to its distance from the observer; the Hubble constant is not actually a constant, but is regarded as measuring the expansion rate today
  • Hubble's constant (noun)
    1. due to the expansion of the universe cosmology the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy to its distance from the observer; the Hubble constant is not actually a constant, but is regarded as measuring the expansion rate today
  • Leonard Constant Lambert (noun)
    1. 1905-1951 english composer and conductor
  • Planck's constant (noun)
    1. the constant of proportionality relating the energy of a photon to its frequency; approximately 6.626 x 10^-34 joule-second
  • constant of gravitation (noun)
    1. physics the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation
  • constant of proportionality (noun)
    1. the constant value of the ratio of two proportional quantities x and y; usually written y = kx, where k is the factor of proportionality
  • constant quantity (noun)
    1. a quantity that does not vary
  • constant-width font (noun)
    1. as by a typewriter a typeface is which each character is given the same width
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