Sequent vs Constant - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) That comes after in time or order; subsequent.
*1860 , ,
*:Why are your songs all wild and bitter sad
*:As funeral dirges with the orphans' cries?
*:Each night since first the world was made hath had
*:A sequent day to laugh it down the skies.
That follows on as a result, conclusion etc.; consequent (to), (on), (upon).
*c. 1604 , (William Shakespeare), Measure for Measure :
*:But let my Triall, be mine owne Confession: / Immediate sentence then, and sequent death, / Is all the grace I beg.
*1897 , (Henry James), What Maisie Knew :
*:Maisie found herself clutched to her mother's breast and passionately sobbed and shrieked over, made the subject of a demonstration evidently sequent to some sharp passage just enacted.
Recurring in succession or as a series; successive, consecutive.
*c. 1603 , (William Shakespeare), Othello , I.2:
*:The Gallies Haue sent a dozen sequent Messengers / This very night, at one anothers heeles: / And many of the Consuls, rais'd and met, / Are at the Dukes already.
Something that follows in a given sequence.
*1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.30:
*:The One is somewhat shadowy. It is sometimes called God, sometimes the Good; it transcends Being, which is the first sequent upon the One.
(logic) An element of a sequence, usually a sequence in which every entry is an axiom or can be inferred from previous elements.
(obsolete) A follower.
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.
As an adjective sequent
is (obsolete) that comes after in time or order; subsequent.As a noun sequent
is something that follows in a given sequence.As a proper noun constant is
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(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.