continuous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin continuus, from contineō (“hold together”). Displaced native Old English singal.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a continuous current of electricity
he can hear its continuous murmur
gloss: Without intervening space; continued.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: 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.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
examples: Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected.
gloss: Expressing an ongoing action or state.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: 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
Related words: contain
continuity
continued
continuum
constant
contiguous
Derived words: 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
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