English Online Dictionary. What means consistency? What does consistency mean?
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kənˈsɪstənsi/
- Hyphenation: con‧sis‧ten‧cy
Noun
consistency (countable and uncountable, plural consistencies)
- Local coherence.
- Correspondence or compatibility.
- Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.
- The degree of viscosity of something.
- (logic) Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory.
- (obsolete) Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.
Antonyms
- inconsistency
Derived terms
Related terms
- consist
- consistence
- consistent