CONSTANT QUANTITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does constant quantity mean? 

• CONSTANT QUANTITY (noun)
  The noun CONSTANT QUANTITY has 1 sense:

1. a quantity that does not vary

  Familiarity information: CONSTANT QUANTITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSTANT QUANTITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A quantity that does not vary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

constant; constant quantity; invariable

Hypernyms ("constant quantity" is a kind of...):

quantity (the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "constant quantity"):

parameter; parametric quantity (a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves)