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constant

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constant

Unchanged through time or space; permanent.
Consistently recurring over time; persistent.
Steady in purpose, action, feeling, etc.
- Both loving one fair maid, they yet remained constant friends.
- c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene ii]:
  I am constant to my purposes.
- His gifts, his constant courtship, nothing gained.
Firm; solid; not fluid.
- If […] you mix them, you may turn these two fluid liquors into a constant body.
(obsolete) Consistent; logical.
- c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene ii]:
  I am no more mad than you are: make the trial of it with any constant question.
(computing, complexity theory) Bounded above by a constant.
constant time constant space

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(unchanged through time or space) nonchanging, unaltering, unvarying; see also Thesaurus:changeless

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constant (plural constants)

That which is permanent or invariable.
(algebra) A quantity that remains at a fixed value throughout a given discussion.
(science) Any property of an experiment, determined numerically, that does not change under given circumstances.
(computing) 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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