Constant vs Value - What's the difference?
constant | value |
Unchanged through time or space; permanent.
Consistently recurring over time; persistent.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-16, volume=409, issue=8862, magazine=(The Economist), author=Schumpeter
, title= Steady in purpose, action, feeling, etc.
* 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.
The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
, title= The degree of importance given to something.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
* M'Culloch
* Dryden
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
(arts) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
* Joe Hing Lowe
Numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
Precise meaning; import.
(obsolete) Esteem; regard.
* Bishop Burnet
(obsolete) valour; also spelled valew
To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
To hold dear.
As a proper noun constant
is .As a verb value is
.constant
English
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.
Noun
(en noun)See also
* (computing) literal ----value
English
Noun
(en noun)Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd, passage=United were value for their win and Rooney could have had a hat-trick before half-time, with Paul Scholes also striking the post in the second half.}}
Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}
- An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power to minister to our wants and enjoyments, and may be universally made use of, without possessing exchangeable value .
- His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
- I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, mediumand light.
- the value''' of a word; the '''value of a legal instrument
- (Mitford)
- (Dryden)
- My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great.
- (Spenser)
Synonyms
* (quality that renders something desirable) worthDerived terms
* valuable * valueless * valueness * economic value * face value * note value * par value * time valueVerb
(valu)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.