continuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kən-tĭnʹyo͞o-əs
ipa: /kənˈtɪn.juː.əs/
ipa: /-(j)ɪu̯.əs/
Etymology: From Latin continuus, from contineō (“hold together”). Displaced native Old English singal.
Senses: examples: text: a continuous current of electricity
text: he can hear its continuous murmur
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
synonyms: perpetual
nonstop
incessant
ongoing
antonyms: broken
discontinuous
discrete
intermittent
interrupted
glosses: Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
examples: text: a continuous line of railroad
text: […] 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.
ref: 1958 January 23, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 15:
text: 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.
ref: 2023 November 29, Philip Haigh, “New Piccadilly Line trains put to the test”, in RAIL, number 997, page 26:
synonyms: protracted
extended
connected
continued
unbroken
antonyms: broken
disconnected
disjoint
glosses: Without intervening space; continued.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: 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.
raw_tags: of a function
examples: text: Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).
raw_tags: of a function between two topological spaces
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Expressing an ongoing action or state.
Synonyms: word: amaranthine
word: ceaseless
word: constant
word: continual
word: continuate
word: continuous
word: dreich
word: endless
word: eternal
word: everlasting
word: extended
word: incessant
word: infinite
word: never-ending
word: nonstop
word: ongoing
word: perpetual
word: persistent
word: relentless
word: steady
word: still
word: termless
word: unbroken
word: unceasing
word: unending
word: unintermitted
word: uninterrupted
word: unremitting
word: lasting
word: permanent
word: uniform
Derived 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 tense
continuous time
continuous track
continuous variable
continuous variable valve timing
continuous wave
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
uniformly continuous
Related terms: contain
continuity
continued
continuum
constant
contiguous