continuity
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
film
government
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
media
narratology
politics
radio
sciences
television
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French continuité, from Latin continuitas. By surface analysis, continu(e) + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: continuities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: While troubleshooting the heating and cooling system, we found a lack of continuity in a circuit that is normally closed.
Considerable continuity of attention is needed to read German philosophy.
Vacuum-fitted wagons are provided with complete vacuum-brake equipment; "piped" wagons have through pipes, enabling them to be marshalled in vacuum-braked trains without interrupting the continuity of the vacuum brake connections, but are not provided themselves with vacuum brake gear.
As on Nos. 20001-3, the motor and generator armature shafts of the new locomotive each carry a heavy flywheel to provide kinetic energy and help maintain the speed of the motor-generator set during interruptions of supply, as at breaks in the continuity of the conductor rail.
With the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV, the College of Cardinals sent a clear message of continuity with the reformist agenda of his predecessor, Pope Francis.
gloss: A characteristic property of a continuous function.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The definition of a continuous function assumes that the function is already defined for x = a. If this is not the case, however, it is sometimes possible to assign such a value to the function for x = a that the condition of continuity shall be satisfied.
gloss: A narrative device in episodic fiction where previous and/or future events in a series of stories are accounted for in present stories.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: In “Treehouse Of Horror” episodes, the rules aren’t just different—they don’t even exist. If writers want Homer to kill Flanders or for a segment to end with a marriage between a woman and a giant ape, they can do so without worrying about continuity or consistency or fans griping that the gang is behaving out of character.
gloss: A canon; one specific fictional universe within a multiverse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: At a live filmed announcement at Midtown Comics in Manhattan on Thursday afternoon, Marvel editor-in-chief Axel Alonso and executive editor Tom Brevoort announced a new status quo for the Marvel Universe, with worlds colliding to form a mish-mash of continuities that will be the setting for all Marvel comics from May 2015 onwards.
gloss: Consistency between multiple shots depicting the same scene but possibly filmed on different occasions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The announcements and messages inserted by the broadcaster between programmes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Being the successor to a no longer extant organization, operating under the same name and usually claiming to be the same entity.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
examples: The irony that was one of the other republican splinter groups in the field, the Continuity IRA, also claimed by virtue of its name that it was the authentic IRA.
This new group looked like another of those which eked out a herbivorous existence in the scrubland just this side of the Monster Raving lunatic fringe, something akin to the continuity Liberal Party perhaps, or the yogic-flying, transcendentally meditating Natural Law Party.
Stalls lined the corridors: the continuity SDP was there, as was the Free Speech Union, along with countless anti-trans organisations.
Synonyms: continence
continuity
continuousness
flow
ongoingness
uninterruptedness
Antonyms: discontinuity
noncontinuity
unevenness
Related words: continue
continual
continuousness
Derived words: bicontinuity
business continuity planning
continuity announcer
continuity nod
continuity series
discontinuity
equicontinuity
hemicontinuity
Lipschitz continuity
noncontinuity
retcon
Scott continuity
semicontinuity
sequential continuity
solution of continuity
uniform continuity
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