It means a term that cannot ever change, no matter what happens to the equation that it is part of.
All numbers are considered constant terms.
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It means something that doesn't change, like a number.
Constant just means that the number does not change. For example, in Chemistry, avogadro's number is 6.022x10^23 and that number will never change, therefore it is a constant.
In an arithmetic sequence, the difference between any term and the previous term is a constant.
... is called a constant term. (I couldn't delete this ... see Anand Mehta above.)