OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 21205

consistent

/kənˈsɪstənt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
consistente
Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.
He is very consistent in his political choices: economy good or bad, he always votes Labour!
The consistent use of Chinglish in China can be very annoying, apart from some initial amusement.
consistente
Compatible, accordant.
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When I do myself the honour of speaking to you next on the subject, I shall hope to receive a more favourable answer than you have now given me; though I am far from accusing you o…
consistente
Of a set of statements: such that no contradiction logically follows from them.
Part of establishing a foundation for geometry was demonstrating that the axioms were consistent – that they could never lead to contradictions.
When we ask whether ideas or terms are consistent or inconsistent with each other, the question really is, in what manner the relation presupposed between the ideas qualifies them…