consistent set

collocation in English

meaningsofconsistentandset

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consistent
adjective
uk
/kənˈsɪs.tənt/
us
/kənˈsɪs.tənt/
always behaving or happening in a similar, especially ...
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set
noun
uk
/set/
us
/set/
a group of similar things that belong together in ...
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(Definition ofconsistentandsetfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Choosing this complete andconsistentsetof assumptions and parameter values is a complex problem.
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Those studies that have been conducted have not produced aconsistentsetof findings.
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It may be important, though, for an individual to have aconsistentsetof tones to be easily understood.
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As the cell recovered, records were taken every minute until six consecutive groups showed aconsistentsetof responses.
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These formed the basis for what later emerged as a fairlyconsistentsetof factors resulting from parent-report questionnaires.
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Those looking for a single clear and internallyconsistentsetof rules to guide modern performers of eighteenth-century sonatas are once again out of luck.
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The application of the default rules to the basic theory constitutes an extension, which consists of a deductive-closed andconsistentsetof propositions.
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At the outset of any modelling project, the most important initial exercise is to develop a clearly thought-through andconsistentsetof objectives.
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Instead of aconsistentsetof regions being activated in response to either living or nonliving things, across studies many different regions are activated.
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Anotherconsistentsetof findings is that these same negative outcomes are associated with high, unresolved marital conflict between the parents.
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That is a full andconsistentsetof rules.
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On the one hand it enables them to assemble their various tasks and activities within a certain order and to subject them to aconsistentsetof calculations.
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This condition on the type hierarchy amounts to saying that there must be a unique most general subtype for anyconsistentsetof types in the hierarchy.
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However, such an approach has yet to present evidence of a single or aconsistentsetof individual characteristics associated with creative designers or creative design solutions.
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It means that the trading standards officer can work to aconsistentsetof rules.
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Aconsistentsetof unemployment figures since 1979 is available only from the seasonally adjusted series.
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But there is a clear need for oneconsistentsetof fire safety standards.
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No complete andconsistentsetof estimates has, to my knowledge, been compiled.
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In general, these analyses identified aconsistentsetof predictors of parenthood for all end points, and the parameter estimates for these risk factors were very similar across all models.
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The estimates of population in each area are the most soundly basedconsistentsetof population data available.
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Provision of aconsistentsetof data for all nationalities, for data back to 1979, would incur disproportionate cost.
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The second is to provide aconsistentsetof legal remedies which will be available in all courts and all proceedings.
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