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self-consistent Definition

self·-consistent (-kən sis′tənt)

adjective

having all parts, ideas, actions, etc. consistent with one another

self-consistent Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • make: That such assumptions can be made self-consistent is doubtful.

Modifies a noun

  • calculation: The computed density therefore does not correspond to a self-consistent atomic calculation.
  • theory: Firstly, he brought about the final consolidation of electricity and magnetism into a single self-consistent theory of electromagnetism.
  • solution: Two methods are compared which allow a simple, self-consistent solution based on finite element analysis.
  • field: The program computes a self-consistent field, then uses the electron map that lies over the nuclear position to predict the NMR tensors.
  • method: Solution method: The self-consistent field method of solution is employed.
  • history: The situation where you were killed but you exist now is not admitted as one of these self-consistent histories.

Modifying Another Word

  • fully: The work on tides at UCL has been an important contribution to a major development of CTIM into fully self-consistent global electrodynamics.
  • not: If we were to attempt to draw the survey at this stage we should quickly discover that the data is not self-consistent.
  • entirely: And in this book this seems entirely self-consistent and reasonable.