constant
UK/ˈkɒnstənt//ˈkɑnstənt/
constant adjective: unchanged through time or space; permanent.
Adjective
constant (comparative more constant, superlative most constant)
- Unchanged through time or space; permanent.
- Synonyms:
- nonchanging
- Consistently recurring over time; persistent.
- The constant pinging of electronic devices is driving many people to the end of their tether. Electronic devices not only overload the senses and invade leisure time. They feed on themselves: the more people tweet the more they are rewarded with followers and retweets.2013 November 16, Schumpeter, “The mindfulness business”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8862
- Synonyms:
- amaranthine, solid, ceaseless, continual, continuate, continuous, dreich, endless, eternal, everlasting
- Steady in purpose, action, feeling, etc.
- Both loving one fair maid, they yet remained constant friends.c. 1580 (date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “[The Second Booke] Chapter 3”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New...
- I am constant to my purposes.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
- Firm; solid; not fluid.
- If […] you mix them, you may turn these two fluid liquors into a constant body.1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the...
- Consistent; logical.
- I am no more mad than you are: make the trial of it with any constant question.c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- Bounded above by a constant.
- constant time constant space
Noun
constant (plural constants)
- That which is permanent or invariable.
- 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
- 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
- An identifier that is bound to an invariant value; a fixed value given a name to aid in readability of source code.
Proper noun capitalized: Constant
Constant
- A male given name from Latin, feminine equivalent Constance.
- A surname.
- A populated place in Saint George parish, Barbados.
constant meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
constant in Hindi
- unchanged through time
- स्थिर sthir, अचल acal
- consistently recurring over time
- सतत satat
- steady
- धीर dhīr, स्थिर sthir
- that which is permanent or invariable
- स्थिरांक sthirāṅk
constant in Tamil
- மாறிலி, மாறாத, நிரந்தரமான, ஓயாத, ஒரே
constant in Urdu
- constant
- ثابت sābit, نتیہ nitya
constant in Bengali
- constant
- সাবিত sabit, ধ্রুব dhrubô
- constant or dogged effort to achieve a purpose
- অধ্যবসায় oddhobśaẏ
- constant, invariable, unchanging
- নিত্য nityô
- a constant
- ধ্রুব dhrubô
More languagesFewer languages
- constant in Telugu
- ముసురు musuru, జొంపము jompamu, సిద్ధము siddhamu
- constant in Malayalam
- സ്ഥിരാങ്കം, അചരം, ഇളകാത്തത്, ഉറച്ച
- constant in Kannada
- ಮಾರ್ಪಡದ, ಸ್ಥಿರ, ದೃಢ, ನಿರಂತರ
- constant in Punjabi
- ਸਦਾ sadā
- constant in Gujarati
- સતત satat, એકધારું ekdhārũ
- constant in Odia
- ଚିରସୁଖ cirasukha
- constant in Sanskrit
- धीर dhīra
- constant in Tagalog
- lagian, maligo, lagiin
- constant in Arabic
- ثَابِت ṯābit
- constant in Malay
- pemalar, angkatap
- constant in Indonesian
- konstan, tetap, konstanta
- constant in Persian
- ثابت sâbet, ماندگار mândegâr
- constant in Thai
- ค่าคงที่ kâa-kong-tîi, ค่าคงตัว kâa-kong-dtuua
- constant in Vietnamese
- hằng số, hằng
Examples of constant in a sentence
- My husband's constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction.
- Bankruptcy is the certain outcome of your constant gambling and lending.
- After six years of constant growth, the company reported a slight decrease in sales last year.
Synonyms of constant
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Antonyms
Forms of constant
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more constant |
| superlative | most constant |
| Noun | |
| plural | constants |
Origin of constant
From Middle English constant, from Old French constant, from Latin constantem, accusative of constans, from cōnstāre (“to stand firm”). Displaced native Old English singal.
Words formed from constant
- constantive
- constant morphism
- constantness
- constant speed drive
- constant speedism
- constant-speed propeller
- constant term
- constant time
- constant velocity
- constant-velocity
- constant-wear garment
- multiconstant
- nonconstant
- thermoconstant
- unconstant
- uniconstant
- constant of integration
- absolute constant
- acid dissociation constant
- Apéry's constant
- Archimedes' constant
- Avogadro constant
- Avogadro's constant
- Boltzmann constant
- Boltzmann's constant
- Brun's constant
- Catalan's constant
- Chaitin's constant
- Champernowne constant
- constant function
- constant problem
- Conway's constant
- Copeland-Erdős constant
- cosmological constant
- Coulomb's constant
- de Bruijn-Newman constant
- decay constant
- dielectric constant
- Dirac constant
- Dirac's constant
- Einstein constant
- Einstein's constant
- equilibrium constant
- Euler-Mascheroni constant
- Feigenbaum constant
- fine structure constant
- fine-structure constant
- form constant
- Fransén-Robinson constant
- fundamental constant
- gas constant
- Gelfond's constant
- gravitational constant
- Henry's law constant
- Hubble constant
- Hubble's constant
- Landau-Ramanujan constant
- lattice constant
- Legendre's constant
- Lipschitz constant
Phrases with constant
- rate constant
- sofa constant
- time constant
- constant terms
- constant times
- magic constant
- solar constant
- Constant Spring
- Planck constant
- spring constant
- Verdet constant
- logical constant
24 more phrasesFewer phrases
- Rydberg constant
- Madelung constant
- Napier's constant
- physical constant
- Planck's constant
- symbolic constant
- constant functions
- constant morphisms
- Ludolph's constant
- Michaelis constant
- screening constant
- shielding constant
- Stieltjes constant
- separation constant
- Lizardman's Constant
- Marchetti's constant
- propagation constant
- Ramanujan's constant
- constant speed drives
- Sommerfeld's constant
- propositional constant
- reaction rate constant
- amortized constant time
- Stefan-Boltzmann constant
Questions about constant
- What does constant mean?
- Constant means unchanged through time or space; permanent.
- What is constant in Hindi?
- Constant in Hindi is स्थिर (sthir), अचल (acal), स्थिरांक (sthirāṅk). See Constant meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is constant?
- Constant can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce constant?
- Constant is pronounced /ˈkɒnstənt/ (UK).
Words near constant in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: constant (page history and authors); Constant (page history and authors); constant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ثابت (Urdu) (page history and authors); অধ্যবসায় (Bengali) (page history and authors); జొంపము (Telugu) (page history and authors); constant (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); constant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਸਦਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); એકધારું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଚିରସୁଖ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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