continuous
adj/kənˈtɪn.juː.əs/ · /-(j)ɪu̯.əs/
Etymology From Latin continuus, from contineō (“hold together”). Displaced native Old English singal.
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Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
- a continuous current of electricity
- the continuous roar of a waterfall
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- he can hear its continuous murmur1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
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Without intervening space; continued.
- a continuous line of railroad
- […] the Plan incorporates in proper combination every available modern technique, including extensive electrification on the new standard high-voltage a.c. system at a frequency of 50 cycles; main-line diesel traction as a half-way house to electrification; lightweight diesel trains for secondary and branch services; and a smaller wagon fleet doing more work by the use of continuous brakes in conjunction with modernised terminals and marshalling yards.1958 January 23, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 15:
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- The dynamic tests at Wildenrath use continuous test tracks built on the site of a former Royal Air Force station that was vacated after the end of the Cold War.2023 November 29, Philip Haigh, “New Piccadilly Line trains put to the test”, in RAIL, number 997, page 26:
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Mathematical analysis, Mathematics, Sciences Of a function Such that, for every x in the domain, for each small open interval D about f(x), there's an interval containing x whose image is in D.
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Mathematics, Sciences Broadly Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).
Of a function between two topological spaces
- Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected.
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Expressing an ongoing action or state.
- Synonyms
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amaranthine, solid, ceaseless, constant, continual, continuate, continuous, dreich, endless, eternal, everlasting, extended, incessant, incessive, infinite, never-ending, nonstop, ongoing, perpetual, persistent, relentless, steady, still, termless, unbroken, unceasing, unending, unintermitted, uninterrupted, unremitting, lasting, permanent, successive, uniform- Antonyms
- discontinuous, non-continuous, noncontinuous, broken, discrete, ending, intermittent, interrupted, stopped
- Derived terms
51 terms
bicontinuous, continuous aspect, continuous bag of words, continuous brake, continuous-braked, continuous clock, continuous delivery, continuous delivery pipeline, continuous erythropoietin receptor activator, continuous impost, continuous integration, continuously, continuousness, continuous phase, continuous random variable, continuous shot, continuous take, continuous tense, continuous time, continuous track, continuous variable, continuous variable valve timing, continuous wave, continuous wavelet transform, equicontinuous, future continuous, future perfect continuous, hemicontinuous, lower semi-continuous, past continuous, past perfect continuous, present continuous, present perfect continuous, pseudocontinuous, quasicontinuous, Scott-continuous, semicontinuous, subcontinuous, uncontinuous, upper semi-continuous, continuous distribution, continuous function, continuous group, continuous line illusion, continuous map, continuous mapping theorem, continuous space, continuous vector bundle, continuously differentiable function, Lipschitz continuous, uniformly continuous- Related terms
- contain, continuity, continued, continuum, constant, contiguous