| 单词 | constancy |
| 释义 | constancy (once / 1364 pages) n Something or someone that never changes, that stays the course, and that is more like a rock than a leaf blowing in the wind shows constancy. Have you ever noticed how some people change their minds every day? Someone like that isn't showing constancy. In parts of the world where the weather changes frequently, the weather has no constancy, whereas in San Francisco, where it's about 70 and mild for ten months of the year, the weather has constancy. If you take constancy — a good thing — too far, you have stubbornness — an undesirable quality. WORD FAMILYconstancy: constancies+/constant: constancy, constantly, constants, inconstant/inconstancy: inconstancies/inconstant: inconstancy, inconstanter, inconstantly USAGE EXAMPLESRemember, it’s constancy, not timing, that beats markets. Seattle Times(Dec 17, 2016) And in the early 20th century, chemists subscribed to that view, based on the constancy of ratios in which different elements combined to form compounds. Science Magazine(Oct 26, 2016) Albeit in this case the dominant career notes are not constant revolution, but a maddening kind of constancy. The Guardian(Sep 22, 2016) 1n the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation early mariners relied on the constancy of the trade winds Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper stability changefulness, inconstancy the quality of being changeable and variable invariance the nature of a quantity or property or function that remains unchanged when a given transformation is applied to it metastabilitythe quality of a physical system that persists in its existing equilibrium when undisturbed (or only slightly disturbed) but able to pass to a more stable equilibrium when sufficiently disturbed monotonyconstancy of tone or pitch or inflection changelessness, unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged 2n faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity) Hyper faithfulness, fidelity the quality of being faithful 3n (psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation Syn|Hypo|Hyper perceptual constancy brightness constancy the tendency for a visual object to be perceived as having the same brightness under widely different conditions of illumination color constancy, colour constancythe tendency for a color to look the same under widely different viewing conditions shape constancythe tendency to perceive the shape of a rigid object as constant despite differences in the viewing angle (and consequent differences in the shape of the pattern projected on the retina of the eye) size constancythe tendency to perceive the veridical size of a familiar object despite differences in their distance (and consequent differences in the size of the pattern projected on the retina of the eye) perception the process of perceiving |
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