Constantive
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Indicating a state of affairs with no additional connotations; denotational. not-comparable
"There are different kinds of speech acts. The two that play the biggest part in the negotiation dance are constantive speech acts and performative speech acts."
- 2 Composed of elements that are each expressible by a unary polynomial. not-comparable
"Thermodynamic properties are additive quantities. Spectroscopic properties are constantive quantities. Wavefunctions, statistical mechanical partition functions, and probabilities are multiplicative quantities."
Example
More examples"There are different kinds of speech acts. The two that play the biggest part in the negotiation dance are constantive speech acts and performative speech acts."
Etymology
From constant + -ive.
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