Consistency vs Alignment - What's the difference?
consistency | alignment |
Local coherence.
Correspondence or compatibility.
Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.
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The degree of viscosity of something.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (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.
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An arrangement of items in a line.
The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.
An alliance of factions.
(astronomy) The conjunction of two celestial objects.
(transport) The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points.
(gaming) In a roleplaying game, one of a set number of philosophical attitudes a character can take.
(bioinformatic) A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.
As nouns the difference between consistency and alignment
is that consistency is local coherence while alignment is an arrangement of items in a line.consistency
English
(wikipedia consistency)Noun
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- His friendship is of a noble make and a lasting consistency .