Consistency vs Stability - What's the difference?
consistency | stability |
Local coherence.
Correspondence or compatibility.
Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.
* Addison
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.
* South
The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change
The tendency to recover from perturbations
As nouns the difference between consistency and stability
is that consistency is local coherence while stability is the condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change.consistency
English
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