About The Word Continuous

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Continuous

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What's The Definition Of Continuous?
[adj] continuing in time or space without interruption; "a continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar atoms results in the emission of light"- James Jeans; "a continuous bout of illness lasting six months"; "lived in continuous fear"; "a continuous row of warehouses"; "a continuous line has no gaps or breaks in it"; "moving midweek holidays to the nearest Monday or Friday allows uninterrupted work weeks"
[adj] (mathematics) of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity Synonyms | Synonyms for Continuous: around-the-clock | ceaseless | consecutive | constant | continual | day-and-night | dogging | endless | free burning | incessant | never-ending | nonstop | perpetual | persisting | round-the-clock | straight | sustained | unceasing | uninterrupted | unremitting Related Terms | Find terms related to Continuous: abiding | accordant | ageless | alike | articulated | automatic | balanced | catenated | ceaseless | chronological | coeternal | concatenated | connected | consecutive | consistent | consonant | constant | continual | continued | continuing | correspondent | cyclical | dateless | direct | durational | durative | endless | equable | equal | eternal | eterne | even | ever-being | ever-durable | ever-during | everlasting | everliving | ever-recurring | featureless | flat | frequent | gapless | haunting | homogeneous | immediate | immemorial | immutable | incessant | indefatigable | indestructible | infinite | interminable | invariable | joined | jointless | lasting | level | linked | measured | mechanical | methodic | monolithic | monotonous | never-ceasing | never-ending | nonstop | nonterminating | nonterminous | of a piece | olamic | ordered | orderly | perdurable | perennial | periodic | permanent | perpetual | persistent | reappearing | recurrent | recurring | regular | remaining | repetitive | returning | revenant | robotlike | round-the-clock | running | seamless | sempiternal | sequent | sequential | serial | serried | smooth | stable | staying | steadfast | steady | sticking | straight | sustained | systematic | temporal | thematic | thick-coming | tight | timeless | twenty-four-hour | ubiquitous | unbroken | unceasing | unchangeable | unchanged | unchanging | undeviating | undifferentiated | undiversified | undying | unending | uniform | unintermitted | unintermittent | unintermitting | uninterrupted | unrelieved | unremitting | unruffled | unstopped | unvaried | unvarying | without end See Also | unbroken Continuous In Webster's Dictionary \Con*tin"u*ous\, a. [L. continuus, fr. continere to
hold together. See {Continent}.]
1. Without break, cessation, or interruption; without
intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken;
continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted;
extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous
current of electricity.
he can hear its continuous murmur. --Longfellow.
2. (Bot.) Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not
interrupted; not joined or articulated.
{Continuous brake} (Railroad), a brake which is attached to
each car a train, and can be caused to operate in all the
cars simultaneously from a point on any car or on the
engine.
{Continuous impost}. See {Impost}.
Syn: {Continuous}, {Continual}.
Usage: Continuous is the stronger word, and denotes that the
continuity or union of parts is absolute and
uninterrupted; as, a continuous sheet of ice; a
continuous flow of water or of argument. So Daniel
Webster speaks of ``a continuous and unbroken strain
of the martial airs of England.'' Continual, in most
cases, marks a close and unbroken succession of
things, rather than absolute continuity. Thus we speak
of continual showers, implying a repetition with
occasional interruptions; we speak of a person as
liable to continual calls, or as subject to continual
applications for aid, etc. See {Constant}.
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