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continuous
English
Etymology
From Latin continuus, from contine? (“hold together”). Displaced native Old English singal.
Pronunciation
- enPR: k?n-t?n?yo?o-?s, IPA(key): /k?n?t?n.ju?.?s/
Adjective
continuous (not comparable)
- Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
- Synonyms: perpetual, nonstop, incessant, ongoing; see also Thesaurus:continuous
- Antonyms: broken, discontinuous, discrete, intermittent, interrupted
- 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: a tale of Acadie, Ticknor and Fields (1854), page 90:
- he can hear its continuous murmur
- Without intervening space; continued.
- Synonyms: protracted, extended, connected, continued, unbroken
- Antonyms: broken, disconnected, disjoint
- (botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
- (mathematical analysis, of a function) 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.
- (mathematics, more generally, of a function between two topological spaces) Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).
- (grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.
Usage notes
- Continuous is stronger than continual. It denotes that the continuity or union of parts is absolute and uninterrupted, as in a continuous sheet of ice, or a continuous flow of water or of argument. So Daniel Webster speaks of "a continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." By contrast, continual usually 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.
Derived terms
- continuous brake
- continuous impost
- continuously
- continuousness
Related terms
- contain
- continuity
- continued
- continuum
Translations
See also
- constant
- contiguous
References
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abiding
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /??ba?.d??/
- Rhymes: -a?d??
Etymology 1
Present participle or participial adjective from abide (verb) +? -ing; or, from Middle English participle form of abiden, abyden (“to abide”).
Adjective
abiding (comparative more abiding, superlative most abiding)
- Continuing or persisting in the same state: lasting, enduring; steadfast. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
Synonyms
- diuturnal, prolonged; see also Thesaurus:lasting
Translations
Verb
abiding
- present participle of abide
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English abydynge, abidynge, -inge [verbal noun of abiden, abyden (“to abide”)], from Old English ab?dung; or, verbal noun from abide (verb) +? -ing.
Noun
abiding (plural abidings)
- The action of one who abides; the state of an abider. [First attested from around 1150 to 1350.]
- (obsolete) An abode. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the early 17th century.]
References
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