self-consistent
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.
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