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Consignee
A consignee is the party named in a contract of carriage or transport document as entitled to take delivery of the goods at destination, under the Hamburg and Rotterdam Rules.
Consignment
Consignment (law): an arrangement in which a consignor delivers goods to a consignee for sale, keeping ownership until sale. Distinguished from sale or return, sale on approval, and carriage consignments; governed by UCC Articles 2 and 9.
Consilience
Consilience, also called convergence of evidence, is the principle that independent evidence converging on one conclusion strongly confirms a theory, a term coined by William Whewell in 1840.
Consistency
Consistency, also called logical consistency, is the syntactic property that no contradiction can be proven from a set of formulas; Gödel's completeness theorem shows every consistent first-order set is satisfiable.
Consistency model
A consistency model is a generative model that maps noise directly to data, enabling one-step image generation, introduced by OpenAI researchers in a 2023 paper.
Consistency models
Consistency models are generative models introduced at OpenAI in March 2023 by Song, Dhariwal, Chen, and Sutskever that map noise directly to data, enabling fast one-step image generation.
Consistent estimator
A consistent estimator, a concept also called statistical consistency, is a sequence of estimators that converges in probability to the true parameter value as the sample size grows.
Consistent hashing
Consistent hashing, also called stable hashing, is a technique for distributing keys among servers so that few keys move when servers are added or removed, introduced by David Karger and colleagues in 1997.
Consistent histories
Consistent histories, also called decoherent histories, is an interpretation of quantum mechanics introduced by Robert Griffiths in 1984, developed by Roland Omnès, and reformulated for quantum cosmology by Gell-Mann and Hartle.
Consistent life ethic
Consistent life ethic (seamless garment, whole life): ethical position opposing abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, capital punishment, and unjust war; named by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin's 1983 Fordham lecture.
Consociationalism
Consociationalism, or consociational democracy, is a theory of institutional design for divided societies, formulated by Arend Lijphart in 1969, calling for power sharing, proportionality, group autonomy, and veto rights.
CONSOL Energy
CONSOL Energy was an American coal producer and exporter headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, tracing its mining operations to 1864 and merging with Arch Resources in January 2025 to form Core Natural Resources.
Consolatio
The consolatio is a genre of ancient literature, in Greek and Latin, written to console a person for grief or loss such as bereavement, exile, or illness.
Consolation à M. du Périer
Consolation à M. du Périer is a consolation poem François de Malherbe wrote, probably in 1599, to his friend Du Périer on the death of his daughter.
Console clone
Console clone: an unauthorized or unlicensed reproduction of a video game console, from Famiclones (Dendy, Pegasus, Micro Genius, Subor) to modern FPGA re-creations by Analogue, MiSTer, and ModRetro.
Console server
A console server, also called a serial console server, is a network appliance that gives administrators command-line access to equipment when the main network is down.
Console war
Console war: rivalry among console makers, first Sega vs Nintendo (Genesis/SNES), later Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo. Marked by exclusives, pricing, and marketing; by 2026 shifted to services, with Xbox units down 33%.
Consolidated B-24 Liberator
The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was an American four-engine heavy bomber of World War II, designed by Consolidated Aircraft of San Diego, with about 18,500 built between 1940 and 1945.
Consolidated B-32 Dominator
The Consolidated B-32 Dominator was an American four-engine very heavy bomber built during World War II as insurance against the failure of the B-29 program; only 118 were built.
Consolidated bioprocessing
Consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) is a cellulosic ethanol process in which enzyme production, biomass hydrolysis, and fermentation of hexose and pentose sugars occur in a single step by one microorganism, proposed in 1996.
Consolidated city-county
Consolidated city-county: a merged city and county government forming one jurisdiction, first seen in New Orleans (1805). Examples include Nashville/Davidson, Honolulu, and San Francisco; research finds little cost savings but some economic development gains.
Consolidated Contractors Company
Consolidated Contractors Company is a family-owned engineering and construction group founded by Palestinian entrepreneurs in Beirut in 1952 and headquartered in Athens since 1974, long described as the Middle East's largest contractor.
Consolidated Edison
Consolidated Edison, commonly called Con Edison or Con Ed, is a New York holding company supplying electricity, gas, and steam to New York City and Westchester County.
Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer
The Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer, also known as the P4Y Privateer, was a four-engine US Navy patrol bomber developed from the B-24 Liberator for long-range maritime patrol from 1944.
Consolidated PBY Catalina
The Consolidated PBY Catalina, also known as the PBY Canso, is an American twin-engine flying boat serving as a patrol bomber and air-sea rescue aircraft from 1936.
Consolidation (accounting)
Consolidation in accounting is the process of combining a parent company's financial statements with those of the subsidiaries it controls into a single set, eliminating intra-group transactions so only outside dealings remain.
Consolidation Chemotherapy
Consolidation chemotherapy (also called intensification or postremission therapy) is treatment given after induction puts cancer into remission, to kill remaining cells. Standard in acute leukemia; in myeloma and solid tumors its survival benefit varies by disease.
Consolidation grouting
Consolidation grouting is a ground-improvement technique in which cement grout is injected at low pressure into voids and cracks in shallow foundation rock, strengthening it to carry a structure, most commonly a dam.
Consolidation of Labor Laws
The Consolidation of Labor Laws (Consolidação das Leis do Trabalho, CLT) is the Brazilian statute uniting labor law in one code, decreed by President Getúlio Vargas on May 1, 1943.
Consolidation of the animation studio industry
Consolidation of the animation studio industry: acquisition and merger of animation studios by media conglomerates such as Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Skydance, with studio closures, layoffs, and parallel Japanese consolidation.