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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
continuous From the web:
- what continuous means
- what continuous integration means
- what continuous cough
- what continuous tense
- what continuous improvement means
- what continuously modified landform
- what continuous contour trenches are used
- what continuous data
endless
English
Etymology
From Middle English endeles, from Old English endel?as (“endless”), from Proto-Germanic *andijalausaz (“endless”), equivalent to end +? -less.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ndl?s/, /??ndl?s/
- Hyphenation: end?less
Adjective
endless (not comparable)
- Having no end.
- endless time; endless praise
- Extending indefinitely.
- an endless line
- (obsolete) Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying.
- All loves are endless.
Synonyms
- (having no end): unending; see also Thesaurus:endless
- (extending indefinitely): eternal, infinite, unlimited; see also Thesaurus:infinite or Thesaurus:eternal
Antonyms
- finite
- limited
Derived terms
- endlessly
- endlessness
Translations
Anagrams
- Seldens
endless From the web:
- what endless mean
- what's endless shrimp
- what's endless love about
- what endless love mean
- what's endless summer
- what endless knot symbolize
- what endless ripple means
- what endless time
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