Consistency, in logic, is a quality of no contradiction.
Consistency may also refer to:
Computer science
- Consistency (database systems)
- Consistency (knowledge bases)
- Consistency (user interfaces)
- Consistent hashing
- Consistent heuristic
- Consistency model
- Data consistency
Statistics
- Consistency (statistics), a property of an estimation technique giving the right answer with an infinite amount of data
- Consistent estimator
- Fisher consistency
- Consistent test: see Statistical hypothesis testing
Physics
- The viscosity of a thick fluid
- Consistent histories, in quantum mechanics
Other uses
- Consistency (negotiation), the psychological need to be consistent with prior acts and statements
- "Consistency", an 1887 speech by Mark Twain
- "Consistency", a song by Megan Thee Stallion and Jhené Aiko from the album Traumazine, 2022
- The consistency criterion, a measure of a voting system requiring that where one is elected by all segments of the voters, one must win the election
- Consistency Theory, an album by 1200 Techniques
- Consistent and inconsistent equations, in mathematics
- Consistent life ethic, an ideology stating that life is sacred
- Equiconsistency, in logic
- Mr. Consistency (foaled 1958), American Thoroughbred racehorse
See also
- Constancy (disambiguation)