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Definition: Consistency |
ConsistencyNoun1. The property of holding together and retaining its shape; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake". 2. A harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts. 3. Logical coherence and accordance with the facts: "a rambling argument that lacked any consistency". 4. (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "consistency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
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Chemical Industry | A general term referring to a subjective evaluation of viscosity, consistency and flow of a vehicle or ink. Source: European Union. (references) |
Chemistry | These tapes are a sort of adhesive tape to put round packages of gauze, cotton, instruments, etc. to be put into the steriliser. Source: European Union. (references) |
Computing | The degree of uniformity, standardisation, and freedom from contradiction among the documents or parts of a system or component. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Set of properties making of a database a true picture of reality. It entails a series of constraints relating to the mutual relationships between data objects and their relationships with the "real world" Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Refers to a single set of axioms that has exactly one set of conclusions that can be drawn from it(1); in the case of a reasoned analytic argument, connotes the progression from a sequence of premises to a valid conclusion(2). Source: European Union. (references) | |
| In proof of correctness, a designation indicating that a program's output assertions follow logically from its input assertions and processing steps. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Electrical Engineering | For a given relay, the maximum value to be expected, with a given confidence level, of the difference between any two measured values determined under identical specified conditions. Source: European Union. (references) |
Engineering & Technology | The resistance of a non-Newtonian material to deformation or flow. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The relative cohesion and plasticity; that is, their resistance to separation, to the crushing or structural aggregates, and to the deformation of the whole mass. Source: European Union. (references) |
Meteorology & Standards | The degree of variation of a measured parameter when a number of measurements under identical conditions are performed with an instrument capable of demonstrating a high degree of precision. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The degree of solidity or fluidity of bituminous materials. b. The relative ease with which a soil can be deformed c. A property of a material determined by the complete flow force relation d. The properties of a slip that control its draining, flowing, and spraying behavior e. Percentage of solids in pulp. (references) |
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Synonyms: ConsistencySynonyms: body (n), consistence (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: inconsistency (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agreement | Conformity; conformance; uniformity; consonance, consentaneousness, consistency; congruity, congruence; keeping; congeniality; correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union. |
Uniformity | Noun: uniformity; homogeneity, homogeneousness; consistency; connaturality, connaturalness; homology; accordance; conformity; agreement; consonance, uniformness. regularity, constancy, even tenor,.routine; monotony. |
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Crosswords: Consistency |
| English words defined with "consistency": attenuate ♦ body, Body color, breakableness ♦ cheeselike, chewy, compactness, Compatibleness, Concent, consistence, Consonancy, Cosmoline ♦ doughy ♦ Encephaloid cancer ♦ formal logic, friable ♦ gaseousness ♦ heavy ♦ inconsistent, inconsistently ♦ jelly, jelly fungus ♦ Lardy, light, lutefisk, lutfisk ♦ Maple sirup, marmalade tree, mathematical logic, Moss land, mushy, Mycomelic ♦ Oil of vitriol ♦ Papyraceous, paste, Proof stick, Pugging ♦ Quiddany ♦ rarefy, rice ♦ Saccharoidal, sandy, scrambled egg, soggy, solidity, solidness, soup, Stirabout, symbolic logic ♦ tenuous, thick, thickened, thickly, thin, thinness, To cream butter, To play the mischief, Tough-pitch, Tremella foliacea ♦ unbreakableness, unhardened, untempered. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "consistency": cache consistency. (references) |
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Screenplays | Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. (Next Stop Wonderland; writing credit: Brad Anderson; Lyn Vaus) | |
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 | B. anthracis Colony Characteristics: A. Consistency sticky (tenacious). When teased with loop, colony will stand up like beaten egg white. Credit: CDC. |  | Walter N. Gaylord dripping the boiled-down maple syrup sap to see if it has reached correct consistency for syrup. Making maple syrup on King evaporator. Waitsfield, Mad River Valley, Vermont. He averages about 150 gallons of syrup annually, this year he. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Walter. M Gaylord dripping the boiled-down maple syrup to see if it has reached the correct consistency for maple syrup. Making maple syrup on King evaporator. Waitsfield, Mad River Valley, Vermont. He averages about 150 gallons of syrup annually, this ye. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Walter M. Gaylord dripping the boiled-down maple sap to see if it has reached correct consistency. Waitsfield, Mad River Valley, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Charlotte Bronte | Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. |
Francis Bacon | Consistency is the foundation of virtue. |
Henry David Thoreau | The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Moreover, the waves, I suspect, do not so much construct as wear down a material which has already acquired consistency. |
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Health | Altered stool consistency also is common. (references) | |
The amount, consistency, and frequency of consumption determine the degree of exposure. (references) | ||
Food affects the consistency of stool and how quickly it passes through the digestive system. (references) | ||
Business | There is a lack of consistency and transparency in customs rulings between different ports. (references) | |
By employing solid backing, successful marketing techniques are based on providing consistency and sufficient security to the consumer. (references) | ||
In addition to reducing federal expenditures, the centralization of procurement in the "Beschaffungsamt" ensures consistency in procurement procedures and offers suppliers one competent point of contact. (references) | ||
Economic History | Laos | EXISTING LEGISLATION OFTEN LACKS CONSISTENCY AND NECESSARY IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS. (references) |
Italy | Trademark applications are examined for acceptability of their format and consistency with the laws. (references) | |
Chad | The OHADA acts have improved the clarity and consistency of commercial law in 16 signatory countries. (references) | |
Political Economy | CZECH REPUBLIC | U.S. firms also complain about the lack of consistency in the application of customs norms. (references) |
REPUBLIC OF KOREA | The United States also has ongoing concerns about the consistency, transparency, and effectiveness of Korean enforcement efforts, particularly with regards to piracy of U.S. computer software and books. (references) | |
PAKISTAN | Its stated goals are restoring investor confidence through stability and consistency in economic policies, increasing domestic savings, carrying out tax reforms, restructuring and privatizing state enterprises, boosting agriculture, and reviving industry. (references) | |
Political Rights | Iran | The Constitution provides for a Council of Guardians composed of six Islamic clergymen and six lay members who review all laws for consistency with Islamic law and the Constitution. (references) |
Tajikistan | Irregularities in a number of constituencies including proxy voting, unsealed ballot boxes, stuffed ballot boxes, votes added in favor of a particular party, lack of consistency between the sum of votes counted and the number of ballots issued, discrepancies between votes considered invalid during the count and the final result sheet, and blank copies of protocols signed before the counting of ballots and filled in with pencil during the count. (references) | |
Trade | Czech Rep | A lack of consistency in the application of customs norms can also act as a non-tariff barrier. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LL.D. Letters indicating the degree Legumptionorum Doctor, one learned in laws, gifted with legal gumption. Some suspicion is cast upon this derivation by the fact that the title was formerly LL.d., and conferred only upon gentlemen distinguished for their wealth. At the date of this writing Columbia University is considering the expediency of making another degree for clergymen, in place of the old D.D. -- Damnator Diaboli. The new honor will be known as Sanctorum Custus, and written $$c. The name of the Rev. John Satan has been suggested as a suitable recipient by a lover of consistency, who points out that Professor Harry Thurston Peck has long enjoyed the advantage of a degree. |
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Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | Humanity and consistency require us to treat them with forbearance and in our dealings with them to honestly and considerately regard their rights and interests. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | That conflict is not an isolated episode, but another great event in the policy that we have followed with strong consistency since World War II. |
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| "Consistency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Consistency" is used about 950 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 950 | 7,633 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "consistency": cache consistency ♦ consistency checking ♦ consistency enforcer. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "consistency": schema-consistency, Self-consistency, time-consistency. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
consistency | 26 |
consistency stool | 7 |
consistency foolish | 4 |
consistency internal | 4 |
data consistency | 4 |
consistency internal reliability | 3 |
consistency hobgoblin | 3 |
consistency semen | 3 |
ari consistency hest lyrics | 3 |
consistency cooperative discipline management | 3 |
consistency foolish hobgoblin little mind | 2 |
cognitive consistency | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "consistency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | agternadraai (consequence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | trashësi (fat, fatness, fleshiness, thickening), pajtim (agreement, chime, compliance, conciliation, conformity, correspondence, keeping, propitiation, reconcilement, reconciliation, subscription), përputhje (accordance, consonance, correspondence, occlusion, osculation), lidhje logjike (coherence, coherency), konsistencë (consistence), konsekuencë, dendësi (density, thickness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كثافة (concentration, density, intensity, thickness), تناغم (chord, concert, concord, harmony, mesh, rhythm, strain, symphony, tone, tune, tuning), تطابق (agree, coincide, coincidence, concurrence, correspond, correspondence, fitness, identification, identify, match, oneness, parallelism, self identification, symmetry), الثبات على مبدإ, إتساق (matchmaking, uniformity), إستقامة (bluntness, honesty, integrity, justice, probity, propriety, rectitude, righteousness, sanity, squareness, straightforwardness, straightness, virtue), درجة الكثافة, درجة اللزوجة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съгласуваност (coherence, coherency, keeping), консистенция (body, consistence, texture), постоянство (assiduity, constancy, firmness, perseverance, persistence, stability), последователност (adherence, coherence, coherency, cohesion, consecution, continuity, order, run, sequence, succession), плътност (body, density, rotundity, rotundness, solidity, substance, thickness, volume, weight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 一贯性. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tuhost (rigidity, solidity, toughness), souhlas (acceptance, accord, agreement, applause, approbation, approval, assent, blessing, compliance, conformity, consensus, consent, correspondence, nod, ok, okay, permission, say so), konzistence (temper, texture), hutnost (compactness), dùslednost. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | følge (come after, consequence, follow, result). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gevolg (adherents, consequence, disciples, followers, following, party, result, retinue, suite, supporters, train), consequentie (consequence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | konsisto, konsekvenco (consequence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | توافق (Accord, Accordance, Adhesion, Agreement, Analogy, Band, Coincidence, Compromise, Concord, Concurrence, Rapport, Settlement, Understanding), سازگاری (Accord, Adjustment, Amenity, Compatibility, Rapport), استحکام (Backbone, Granite, Grit, Rigidity, Solidity, Stability, Strength, Substance), درجه غلظت . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tiiviys (closeness, compactness, denseness, density, tightness), ristiriidattomuus (partial correctness), paksuus (thickness), osittainen oikeellisuus (partial correctness), mittausarvojen varmuusväli, konsistenssi (body, coherence, consistence, soil consistence), koherenssi (coherence), jäykkyys (constraint, formality, rigidity, stiffness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | consistance (consistence), cohérence (coherence, consistence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zusammensetzung (assembly, combination, composition, compound, consistence, constitution, formation, make up, mixture, putting together), Konsistenz (consistence, texture), konsequenz (closeness, consequence, effect), Folgerichtigkeit (congruity, consistence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συνέπεια (aftermath, bearing, coherence, consequence, consistence, corollary, implication, offensive, punctuality), συνοχή (coherence, cohesion, consistence, containment, continuity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קשירות, עקיבות (pertinacity), עקביות, צפיפות (compactness, congestion, crowding, density, jam, squeeze, thickness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tömörség (brevity, compactness, conciseness, concision, consistence, density, massiveness, solidity, succinctness, terseness), következetesség (coherence, coherency, consistence), összetétel (combination, composition, compound, consistence, content, synthesis), állag (consistence), sűrűség (brush, consistence, density), konzisztencia (body, consistence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | ketetapan (constancy, decision), kepadatan (density). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | coerenza (coherence, coherency, consistence), consistenza (consistence, foundation, solidity, texture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 辻褄 (coherence), 纏まり (conclusion, settlement), 終始一貫 , 整合性 (integrity), 平仄 (meter), 一貫性 , 一貫 (8.333 lbs, coherence, integration), 一致 (agreement, coincidence, conformity, co-operation, match, union). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅうしいっか", ひょうそく (meter), まとまり (conclusion, settlement), つじつま (coherence), せい"うせい (integrity), いっか"せい, いっか" (8.333 lbs, a link, coherence, integration, one brush, one flute, one volume), いっち (agreement, coincidence, conformity, co-operation, match, union). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 견실함. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Malay | akibat (conclusion, consequence, effect, result). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onsistencycay consistência (consistence, solidity). (various references) consistenţã (consistence, constancy, firmness, solidity, stability, steadiness), consecvenţã (congruence, purposefulness), concordanţã (accord, accordance, agreement, concordance, conformity, congruence, correspondence, harmony, keeping, sequence), compatibilitate (adequacy, compatibility), fermitate (backbone, consistence, decision, determination, firmness, fixedness, fixity, inflexibility, resoluteness, resolution, solidity, staunchness, steadfastness, steadiness, stiffness, stoutness, sturdiness), densitate (consistence, denseness, density), acord (accede, accession, accord, accordance, agree, agreement, arrangement, assent, cheer, chord, coincidence, compact, compliance, composition, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruity, consent, consentaneity, contract, convention, correspondence, covenant, harmony, key, permit, solidarity, treaty, understanding, uniformity, union, unison, unity). (various references) состав (composition, consist, make up, temper, train), консистенция (consistence), постоянство (constancy, permanence, permanency, persistence, self-consistency), последовательность (chain, consecution, continuity, progression, sequence, succession), плотность (closeness, consistence, density, massiveness, toughness). (various references) oibrich (labour; work to a consistency, mix;, operate, work). (various references) konzistencija (consistence), doslednost (consistence). (various references) consecuencia (after effect, aftermath, by product, consequence, consistence, effect, implication, issue, outcome, sequel), consistencia (consistence, fixtures). (various references) konsistens (consistence, texture), konsekvens (consequence, consistence). (various references) yoğunluk (compactness, congestion, consistence, denseness, density, depth, intenseness, intension, intensity, thickness, turbidity, volume), uyum (accommodation, accord, accordance, balance, chime, coherence, coherency, concert, concinnity, concord, concordance, conformity, congruence, congruity, consecution, consistence, consonance, harmony, keeping, proportion, rapport, rhythm, scheme, symmetry, symphony, tune, unison), tutarlılık (consistence), koyuluk (darkness, deep, deepness, intenseness, intension, intensity, saturation, somberness, sombreness, stiffness, thickness), katılık (consistence, hardness, rigidity, rigor, rigour, solidity, sternness, stiffness, strictness), kıvam (degree of maturity, stiffness, temper), bağdaşma (compatibility). (various references) узгодженість (concordance, concurrence, congruence, ensemble, harmony), логічність (clearness, logic), постійність (constancy, persistence, stability), послідовність (chain, coherence, continuity, graduality, order, progression, sequence, succession). (various references) tính trước sau như một. (various references) cysondeb (regularity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | constantia, constantiam, convenientia, crassitudine, crassitudo. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "consistency": inconsistency. (additional references) | |
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"Consistency" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: consissency, consisstincy, consistancy, consisteney, consistens, consistensy, consitancy, consitency. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "consistency" (pronounced kunsi"stunsē) |
| 11 | k u n s i" s t u n s ē | inconsistency. |
| 6 | -s t u n s ē | constancy, inconstancy. |
| 5 | -t u n s ē | accountancy, competency, consultancy, expectancy, hesitancy, incompetency, latency, militancy, potency. |
| 4 | -u n s ē | absorbency, agency, ascendancy, ascendency, buoyancy, clemency, cogency, complacency, Conservancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, discrepancy, dormancy, efficiency, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expediency, fluency, frequency, immunodeficiency, incumbency, indecency, inefficiency, infancy, infrequency, insolvency, insurgency, interagency, irrelevancy, leniency, malignancy, nonemergency, occupancy, poignancy, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, redundancy, regency, relevancy, residency, resiliency, solvency, stridency, stringency, sufficiency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, truancy, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy, vibrancy. |
| 3 | -n s ē | bouncy, chancy, deviancy, fancy, fiancee, mincy, Nancy, necromancy, teensy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-n-n-o-s-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: concisest, cytosines, syntonies. | |
-3 letters: conceits, concents, connects, consents, cysteins, cystines, cytosine, sections, synectic, syntonic, tensions. | |
-4 letters: cession, ciscoes, conceit, concent, concise, conines, connect, consent, consist, cosiest, cosines, coyness, cystein, cystine, encysts, incests, insects, intones, nosiest, notices, oscines, sconces, section, sennits, sinsyne, society, sonnets, sonnies, tension, tocsins. | |
-5 letters: centos, cestoi, cestos, ciscos, coneys, conics, conies. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-n-n-o-s-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: inconsistency. | |
+3 letters: spectinomycins. | |
+4 letters: conscientiously, synchronicities. | |
+5 letters: cholecystokinins. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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