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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
• Consistency (suspension) of a suspension
• 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)