What is the difference between constant and continuous?
constant | continuous | Synonyms |
Unchanged through time or space; permanent.
Consistently recurring over time; persistent.
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* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
Firm; solid; not fluid.
* (Robert Boyle) (1627-1691)
(obsolete) Consistent; logical.
* Shakespeare, Twelfth Night IV.ii
That which is permanent or invariable.
(algebra) A quantity that remains at a fixed value throughout a given discussion.
(science) Any property of an experiment, determined numerically, that does not change under given circumstances.
(computing) An identifier that is bound to an invariant value; a fixed value given a name to aid in readability of source code.
Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time.
* 1847 , , Ticknor and Fields (1854), page 90:
Without intervening space; continued; protracted; extended.
(botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
(analysis, of a function) Such that, for every x'' in the domain, for each small open interval ''D'' about ''f''(''x''), there's an interval containing ''x'' whose image is in ''D .
(mathematics, more generally, of a function) Such that each open set in the range has an open preimage.
(grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.
Continuous is a synonym of constant.
As adjectives the difference between constant and continuous
is that constant is unchanged through time or space; permanent while continuous is without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time.As a noun constant
is that which is permanent or invariable.constant
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Adjective
(en adjective)The mindfulness business, passage=The constant pinging of electronic devices is driving many people to the end of their tether. Electronic devices not only overload the senses and invade leisure time. They feed on themselves: the more people tweet the more they are rewarded with followers and retweets.}}
- Both loving one fair maid, they yet remained constant friends.
- I am constant to my purposes.
- His gifts, his constant courtship, nothing gained.
- Ifyou mix them, you may turn these two fluid liquors into a constant body.
- I am no more mad than you are: make the trial of it with any constant question.
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(en noun)See also
* (computing) literal ----continuous
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Adjective
(-)- a continuous current of electricity
- he can hear its continuous murmur
- a continuous line of railroad
- Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected.
