constaunt

Adjective

constant (comparative more constant, superlative most constant)

1. Unchanged through time or space; permanent.

   Synonyms:

   nonchanging

2. 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

3. 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...
4. 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...
5. (obsolete) 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...
6. (complexity theory) Bounded above by a constant.
   • constant time constant space

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