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continuous
continual: happens frequently
in time: close succession
continuous: uninterrupted
Continuous: Adjective -
continuous has 2 senses (first
2 from tagged texts)
1. (18) continuous,
uninterrupted -- (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")
2. (4) continuous -- (of a
function or curve; extending
without break or irregularity)
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Synonym
2 senses of continuous
Sense 1
continuous (vs.
discontinuous), uninterrupted
-- (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")
=> around-the-clock,
day-and-night, nonstop,
round-the-clock -- (at all
times; "around-the-clock
nursing care")
=> ceaseless, constant,
incessant, never-ending,
perpetual, unceasing,
unremitting -- (uninterrupted
in time and indefinitely long
continuing; "the ceaseless
thunder of surf"; "in constant
pain"; "night and day we live
with the incessant noise of
the city"; "the never-ending
search for happiness"; "the
perpetual struggle to maintain
standards in a democracy";
"man's unceasing warfare with
drought and isolation";
"unremitting demands of
hunger")
=> continual -- (`continual'
(meaning seemingly
uninterrupted) is often used
interchangeably with
`continuous' (meaning without
interruption))
=> dogging, persisting --
(relentless and indefatigable
in pursuit or as if in
pursuit; "impossible to escape
the dogging fears")
=> endless -- (having the ends
united so as to form a
continuous whole; "an endless
chain")
=> free burning, sustained --
((of an electric arc)
continuous; "heat transfer to
the anode in free burning
arcs")
=> straight, consecutive --
(successive (without a break);
"sick for five straight days")
=> sustained -- (maintained at
length without interruption or
weakening; "sustained flight")
Also See-> unbroken#1
Sense 2
continuous (vs. discontinuous)
-- (of a function or curve;
extending without break or
irregularity)
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Antonyms
2 senses of continuous
Sense 1
continuous (vs.
discontinuous), uninterrupted
-- (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")
discontinuous (vs.
continuous), noncontinuous --
(not continuing without
interruption in time or space;
"discontinuous applause"; "the
landscape was a discontinuous
mosaic of fields and forest
areas"; "he received a
somewhat haphazard and
discontinuous schooling")
=> disrupted -- (marked by
breaks or gaps; "many routes
are unsafe or disrupted")
=> disjunct -- (used of
distributions, as of
statistical or natural
populations; "disjunct
distribution of king crabs")
Sense 2
continuous (vs. discontinuous)
-- (of a function or curve;
extending without break or
irregularity)
discontinuous (vs. continuous)
-- (of a function or curve;
possessing one or more
discontinuities)
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Continuous is the vale of: 1
of 2 senses of continuous
Sense 1
continuous (vs.
discontinuous), uninterrupted
-- (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")
=> continuity, persistence --
(the property of a continuous
and connected period of time) |
