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const.

const. is the abbreviation of constable.

const. is the abbreviation of constant.

const. is the abbreviation of constitution.

const. is the abbreviation of construction.

const. is the abbreviation of constitutional.

Meaning of constable

Noun

constable (plural constables)

  1. One holding the lowest rank in most Commonwealth police forces. (See also chief constable.)
    • As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  2. (UK) A police officer or an officer with equivalent powers.
  3. (historical) An officer of a noble court in the Middle Ages, usually a senior army commander. (See also marshal).
  4. The warden of a castle.
  5. (US) An elected or appointed public officer, usually at municipal level, responsible for maintaining order or serving writs and court orders.
  6. (Channel Islands) An elected head of a parish (also known as a connétable)

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Meaning of constant

Noun

constant (plural constants)

  1. That which is permanent or invariable.
  2. 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..2015, Emanuel Carneiro, Damiano Foschi, Diogo Oliveira e Silva, Christoph Thiele, “A sharp trilinear inequality related to Fourier restriction on the circle”, in arXiv
    Antonyms:
    variable
  3. 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−).2015, Lenny H.E. Winkel et al., “Selenium Cycling Across Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Interfaces: A Critical Review”, in Nutrients, volume 7, →DOI
  4. 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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Proper noun capitalized: Const.

Const.

  1. Alternative letter-case form of const., abbreviation of Constitution.
    • The Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause provides that “[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” U.S. Const. amend. XIV, § 1.2025 January 30, “OCA – ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN ADVOCATES v. MARCO RUBIO, et al.”, in United States District Court for the District of Columbia, page 11

Forms of const.

pluralconsts.

Questions about const.

What is const. the abbreviation of?
Const. is the abbreviation of constable.
What part of speech is const.?
Const. is a proper noun.

Words near const. in the dictionary

  1. conspurcations
  2. consquamatic acid
  3. const
  4. const correctness
  5. const-correct
  6. const.
  7. constab
  8. constable
  9. Constable Burton
  10. Constable country
  11. constabled

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