constant vs changeable
Definitions
adjective
- unvarying in nature
- steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection
- uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
noun
- a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context
- a quantity that does not vary
Examples
While poor excommunicated Miss Tox, who, if she were a fawner and toad – eater, was at least an honest and a constant one, and had ever borne a faithful friendship towards her impeacher and had been truly absorbed and swallowed up in devotion to the magnificence of Mr
For 10,000,000 years during the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs this area was a fiery inferno of constant volcanic activity and magnificent giants such as the Grizaba, La Malinche, Iztaccihuatl, Popocatepetl, Volcan de Toluca and Volcan de Colima, along with thousands of smaller volcanic cones, came into eruptive existence.
The near-constant depth of the abyssal sea floor indicates that the lithosphere thickens to roughly 100 km in 70 million years, but then ceases to grow.
Definitions
adjective
- such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change
- capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature
- varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles
- subject to change
Examples
So weeding out potential jurors with unchangeable views on guilt or innocence has the elaborateness of celebrity trials like that of O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted at the same courthouse in 1995.
During changeable weather, the temperature can veer from sub-Mediterranean to Siberian.
Such changeable weather can pose problems for wildlife.
