constants
- 1Plural of constant.
Physicists rely on several fundamental constants when modeling the behavior of light.
The spreadsheet keeps these tax rates as constants so the formulas never alter them.
Note
A regular -s plural that belongs only to the noun. The adjective constant never takes the ending, so a careful writer puts constant values or constant pressures, never constants values. The plural does most of its work in technical settings: the fixed quantities of a calculation, the numerical properties an experiment holds steady, and the named values a programmer binds in source code are all counted as constants.
constants is a form of constant
constant, noun: In mathematics and science, a quantity or value that stays fixed throughout a calculation, discussion, or experiment. Full entry
- Forms
- constantconstants plural
- Spelling
- constant → constants: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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