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Definition

unchanging, continuous, or happening repeatedly

The history of computers is a history of constant technological advancement.

constant = continuous

She is in constant pain.

constant = continuous, or happening repeatedly

Their bickering has been a constant problem for the team.
As other things change in the function, this number remains a constant.
She is a constant friend I can count on to look out for me.
She committed to him fully, but his love was inconstant.

(Editor's note: The prefix "in-" in inconstant means not and reverses the meaning of constant. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.)

in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance.
George Orwell -- 1984

constant = continuous

The bottle of whiskey — a second one — was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who "felt just as good on nothing at all."
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

constant = continuous (repeated again and again)

He hated their silly attitudes and their constant giggling.
Dav Pilkey -- Captain Underpants (# 1)

constant = happening all the time

...our nourishment is generally very bad; we have a constant hunger.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

constant = unchanging, continuous, or happening repeatedly

But we had to jump up constantly, every time a Kapo came in to see if anybody had a pair of new shoes.
Elie Wiesel -- Night

constantly = all the time (happens repeatedly)

A constant rain and shrouded gray sky masked the passing of hours, leaving Cole in a cruel time warp with only one possible end.
Ben Mikaeslen -- Touching Spirit Bear

constant = continuous or unchanging

We didn't have no trouble about snags; the lightning was glaring and flittering around so constant that we could see them plenty soon enough to throw her head this way or that and miss them.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

constant = continuously (happening all the time)

But always — do not forget this, Winston — always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler.
George Orwell -- 1984
But always — do not forget this, Winston — always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler.
George Orwell -- 1984
I see intestine wounds that are constantly full of excreta.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
These other questioners saw to it that he was in constant slight pain, but it was not chiefly pain that they relied on.
George Orwell -- 1984
There was a constant come-and-go of prisoners of every description: drug-peddlers, thieves, bandits, black-marketeers, drunks, prostitutes.
George Orwell -- 1984
"Spill his blood!" The blue-white scar was constant, the noise unendurable.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
It is for the possession of these thickly-populated regions, and of the northern ice-cap, that the three powers are constantly struggling.
George Orwell -- 1984

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