English-French translations for consistent

• cohérent
  Cela est-il cohérent, Monsieur le Commissaire? Is that consistent, Commissioner?
  Soyez cohérents, Mesdames et Messieurs! Be consistent, ladies and gentlemen!
  Sinon, nous ne sommes pas cohérents. Otherwise, we will not be consistent.
• conforme
  La législation nationale doit être conforme aux obligations internationales en matière de droits de l'homme. Domestic legislation must be consistent with international human rights obligations.
  Une telle action est-elle conforme à nos valeurs européennes de justice et de démocratie? Is such action consistent with our own EU values of justice and democracy?
  La procédure de vote électronique est donc tout à fait conforme au règlement. So the procedure to vote electronically is perfectly consistent with the Rules.
• consistant
• constant
  Nous avons toujours été constants en ce sens. We have been entirely consistent for this side.
  Pour ce qui nous concerne, dans notre groupe, nous sommes constants. As far as our group is concerned, we have been consistent.

Definition of consistent

• Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.
• Compatible, accordant
• Of a set of statements: such that no contradiction logically follows from them
• object#Noun|Objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another
• A kind of penitent#Noun|penitent who was allowed to assist#Verb|assist at prayers, but was not permit#Verb|permitted to receive the holy sacraments

Examples

• The consistent use of Chinglish in China can be very annoying, apart from some initial amusement
• He is very consistent in his political choices: economy good or bad, he always votes Labour!

Related words

• consistently
• inconsistent
• inconsistently
• paraconsistent
• consistent hashing
• consistent linear system of equations
• paraconsistent logic