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con·sis·ten·cy C0583800 (kən-sĭs′tən-sē)n. pl. con·sis·ten·cies 1. a. Agreement or logical coherence among things or parts: a rambling argument that lacked any consistency.b. Correspondence among related aspects; compatibility: questioned the consistency of the administration's actions with its stated policy.2. Reliability or uniformity of successive results or events: pitched with remarkable consistency throughout the season.3. Degree of density, firmness, or viscosity: beat the mixture to the consistency of soft butter.consistency (kənˈsɪstənsɪ) or consistencen, pl -encies or -ences1. agreement or accordance with facts, form, or characteristics previously shown or stated2. agreement or harmony between parts of something complex; compatibility3. (General Physics) degree of viscosity or firmness4. the state or quality of holding or sticking together and retaining shape5. conformity with previous attitudes, behaviour, practice, etccon•sist•en•cy (kənˈsɪs tən si) also con•sist′ence, n., pl. -cies. 1. degree of density, firmness, viscosity, etc.: a liquid with the consistency of cream. 2. steadfast adherence to the same principles, course, form, etc. 3. agreement, harmony, or compatibility, esp. correspondence or uniformity among the parts of a complex thing. 4. the condition of cohering or holding together and retaining form. [1585–95] ThesaurusNoun | 1. | consistency - the property of holding together and retaining its shape; "wool has more body than rayon"; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake"eubstance, consistence, bodygaseousness - having the consistency of a gasproperty - a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class; "a study of the physical properties of atomic particles"viscosity, viscousness - resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow)thickness - resistance to flowthinness - a consistency of low viscosity; "he disliked the thinness of the soup"hardness - the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scalesoftness - the property of giving little resistance to pressure and being easily cut or moldedbreakableness - the consistency of something that breaks under pressureunbreakableness - a consistency of something that does not break under pressureporosity, porousness - the property of being porous; being able to absorb fluidssolidity, solidness - the consistency of a solid | | 2. | consistency - a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or partsconsistenceuniformness, uniformity - the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom)inconsistency - the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts | | 3. | consistency - logical coherence and accordance with the facts; "a rambling argument that lacked any consistency"coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness - the state of cohering or sticking together | | 4. | consistency - (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one anotherlogicality, logicalness - correct and valid reasoninglogic - the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference |
consistencynoun1. agreement, harmony, correspondence, accordance, regularity, coherence, compatibility, uniformity, constancy, steadiness, steadfastness, evenness, congruity There's always a lack of consistency in matters of foreign policy.2. texture, density, thickness, firmness, viscosity, compactness I added a little milk to mix the dough to the right consistency.Quotations "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative" [Oscar Wilde] "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" [Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: Self-Reliance]consistencynounLogical agreement among parts:coherence, congruity, consistence.Translationsconsist (kənˈsist) verb (with of) to be composed or made up. The house consists of six rooms. 由...組成 由...组成conˈsistency noun the degree of thickness or firmness. of the consistency of dough. 濃稠度,堅實度 浓度,稠度
consistent (kənˈsistənt) adjective1. (often with with) in agreement (with). The two statements are not consistent; The second statement is not consistent with the first. 一致的 一致的2. always (acting, thinking or happening) according to the same rules or principles; the same or regular. He was consistent in his attitude; a consistent style of writing. 一貫的,始終如一的 一贯的,始终如一的 conˈsistency nounthe consistency of his work. 一致 一致conˈsistently adverbHis work is consistently good. 始終 始终如一地consistency
consistency, consistence degree of viscosity or firmness Consistency the aggregate of rheological properties of a viscous liquid or of a viscoplastic or viscoelastic body. The concept of consistency does not always have a clearly defined meaning in physics. Unlike other rheological concepts with a similar connotation (for example, viscosity, fluidity, and plasticity), “consistency” as a technological term denotes the mobility (thickness) of liquid (”semiliquid”) and solid (”semisolid”) products and materials. It is usually used in describing systems whose flow (or deformation) characteristics vary with changes in applied stress. Consistency is sometimes estimated qualitatively, by comparison of a given system with that of commonly known products, such as “consistency of honey” or “consistency of butter.” Special instruments called consistometers, which express consistency in arbitrary units or in indexes of viscosity and strength, are more frequently used.
Consistency a property of a deductive theory (or system of axioms by means of which the theory is specified) such that it is impossible to derive from it a contradiction, that is, any two sentences A and ┐A, each of which is the negation of the other. Consistency for a broad class of formal theories, including the axiom A & ┐A 3 B (“a contradiction implies any assertion”), is equivalent to the existence in the given theory of at least one unprovable sentence. Consistency, which is necessary in order that a system be considered a description of an “intuitive situation,” does not by any means guarantee the existence of such a situation. However, abstract models can be indicated in each case for any consistent system of axioms. Consistency therefore serves for representatives of “classical” trends in the foundations of mathematics and logic (and even more so for adherents of model theory) if not as the foundation for the “existence” of sets of abstract objects described by the axioms, then at least as a sufficient reason for an intuitive examination and study of such objects. Insofar as a “situation” that can be described by a theory lies outside the theory itself, the aforementioned concept of consistency, which may be called “internal” (in other words, syntactic, or logical) consistency, is closely related to what is called “external” (semantic) consistency. External consistency consists in the unprovability in a given theory of any sentence contradicting (in the ordinary intuitive sense) the facts of the “reality” described by the theory. In spite of this relation, syntactic and semantic consistency are equivalent only for such “poor” logical theories as, for example, the propositional calculus. However, in general, internal consistency is stronger than external consistency. The role of the “reality” reflected by a given concrete theory can also be played by some other deductive theory, so that the external consistency of the original theory can be understood as relative consistency, and the proof of this consistency is the indication of a system of corresponding semantic rules for translating concepts, expressions, and assertions from the second theory into the first, yielding an interpretation (model) of the original theory. In classical mathematics, set theory serves in the final analysis as a source for the construction of models for such proofs. However, the discovery of paradoxes (antinomies) in set theory has led to the necessity of searching for new, in a sense, “absolute,” methods of proving consistency that are fundamentally different from the method of interpretations. The need for new methods of proving consistency also arises from the noncoincidence of the concepts of internal and external consistency. One may choose an intermediate method, requiring an absolute proof of consistency only for the axiomatic theory of sets (to which it would be possible to reduce the consistency problem of specific mathematical theories by using purely model-theoretic means) or even for such a relatively simple part of it as the formalized arithmetic of natural numbers, since a set-theoretic universe of discourse of the principal divisions of classical mathematics can be constructed by means of this formalized arithmetic. Such a path was taken by D. Hubert, who proposed a broad program, in the carrying out of which the theories for which a foundation was to be provided would first undergo formalization and the resulting formal systems (calculi) would be checked for syntactic consistency by finitary, that is, intuitive, means, but not using questionable set-theoretic abstractions. Such absolute consistency proofs constituted the fundamental content of the metamathematics (proof theory) developed by Hilbert’s school. But by 1931, K. Godel had demonstrated the fundamental unfeasability of Hilbert’s program and thereby the limitations of the axiomatic method, within the framework of which the requirements of consistency and completeness, for sufficiently rich formal theories, are inconsistent. The requirement of completeness loses its meaning in the case of intuitive, or “nonformal,” deductive (including mathematical) theories, so that their consistency remains, as before, the most important necessary criterion for their having meaning and being applicable in practice. REFERENCEKleene, S. C. Vvedenie v metamatematiku. Moscow, 1957. (Translated from English; contains list of references).IU. A. GASTEV consistency[kən′sis·tən·sē] (materials) The degree of solidity or fluidity of a material such as grease, pulp, or slurry. consistency1. The degree of firmness, or the relative ability of freshly mixed concrete, grout, or mortar to flow; usually measured by the slump test for concrete, and by the flow test for mortar, plaster, cement paste, or grout. Also see viscosity. 2. The property of a cohesive soil that describes its physical state.consistencyA uniform design or pattern. In the computer field, consistency is not generally a design criterion. While there is always a certain amount of backward compatibility, the tendency with professionals in this field is to create something new and different. Over the years, this has resulted in countless different file formats, menu hierarchies and user interfaces that drive people crazy. See NIH syndrome.LegalSeeConsistentconsistency
Synonyms for consistencynoun agreementSynonyms- agreement
- harmony
- correspondence
- accordance
- regularity
- coherence
- compatibility
- uniformity
- constancy
- steadiness
- steadfastness
- evenness
- congruity
noun textureSynonyms- texture
- density
- thickness
- firmness
- viscosity
- compactness
Synonyms for consistencynoun logical agreement among partsSynonyms- coherence
- congruity
- consistence
Synonyms for consistencynoun the property of holding together and retaining its shapeSynonymsRelated Words- gaseousness
- property
- viscosity
- viscousness
- thickness
- thinness
- hardness
- softness
- breakableness
- unbreakableness
- porosity
- porousness
- solidity
- solidness
noun a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or partsSynonymsRelated WordsAntonymsnoun logical coherence and accordance with the factsRelated Words- coherence
- coherency
- cohesion
- cohesiveness
noun (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one anotherRelated Words- logicality
- logicalness
- logic
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