consistency

  1. Noun.  local coherence.
  2. Noun.  correspondence or compatibility.
  3. Noun.  reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.
  4. Noun.  the degree of viscosity of something.
  5. Noun.  (logic) Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory.

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