Same and Constant

noun

• A member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer.
  • synonyms: Lapp, Lapplander, Sami, Saami, Saame
• The language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
  • synonyms: Lapp, Sami, Saami, Saame

adjective

• Same in identity.
  • usage: "the same man I saw yesterday"; "never wore the same dress twice"; "this road is the same one we were on yesterday"; "on the same side of the street"
• Closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree.
  • usage: "curtains the same color as the walls"; "two girls of the same age"; "mother and son have the same blue eyes"; "animals of the same species"; "the same rules as before"; "two boxes having the same dimensions"; "the same day next year"
• Equal in amount or value.
  • usage: "like amounts"; "equivalent amounts"; "the same amount"; "gave one six blows and the other a like number"; "the same number"
  • synonyms: like
• Unchanged in character or nature.
  • usage: "the village stayed the same"; "his attitude is the same as ever"

• (v.i.) Just mentioned or just about to be mentioned.
• (v.i.) Of like kind, species, sort, dimensions or the like; not differing in character or in the quality or qualities compared; corresponding; not discordant; similar; like.
• (v.i.) Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged.

noun

• A quantity that does not vary.
  • synonyms: constant quantity, invariable
• A number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context.
  • usage: "the velocity of light is a constant"

adjective

• Unvarying in nature.
  • usage: "maintained a constant temperature"; "principles of unvarying validity"
  • synonyms: changeless, invariant, unvarying
• Steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection.
  • usage: "a man constant in adherence to his ideals"; "a constant lover"; "constant as the northern star"
• Uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing.
  • usage: "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger"
  • synonyms: ceaseless, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting

• (v.t.) Not liable or given, to change; permanent; regular; continuous; continually recurring; steadfast; faithful; not fickle.
• (n.) A quantity that does not change its value; -- used in countradistinction to variable.
• (v.t.) Consistent; logical.
• (v.t.) Remaining unchanged or invariable, as a quantity, force, law, etc.
• (v.t.) Firm; solid; fixed; immovable; -- opposed to fluid.
• (n.) That which is not subject to change; that which is invariable.
• (n.) A number whose value, when ascertained (as by observation) and substituted in a general mathematical formula expressing an astronomical law, completely determines that law and enables predictions to be made of its effect in particular cases.
• (n.) A number expressing some property or condition of a substance or of an instrument of precision; as, the dielectric constant of quartz; the collimation constant of a transit instrument.

• French, English: From the Late Latin name Constans, which meant "constant, steadfast"
• English: Variant of Constantine: Steady, stable