continuous

CEFRC1

/kənˈtɪn.juː.əs/

adjective

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In plain English

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adjective
Happening or existing without stopping or being interrupted.
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adjective
Extra detail
Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.

Examples

Recovery after the accident will be a continuous process that may take several months.
There was a continuous line of cars.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Also pronounced

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Extra meanings

Without intervening space; continued.
Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
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.

In context

Advance in science is continuous.
Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected.
a continuous current of electricity

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he can hear its continuous murmur
1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II)
[…] the Plan incorporates in proper combination every available modern technique, including extensive electrification on the new standard high-voltage a.c. system at a frequency of 50 cycles; main-line diesel traction as a half-way house to electrification; lightweight diesel trains for secondary and branch services; and a smaller wagon fleet doing more work by the use of continuous brakes in conjunction with modernised terminals and marshalling yards.
1958 January 26, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 15
The dynamic tests at Wildenrath use continuous test tracks built on the site of a former Royal Air Force station that was vacated after the end of the Cold War.
2023 November 29, Philip Haigh, “New Piccadilly Line trains put to the test”, in RAIL, number 997, page 26

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From Latin continuus, from contineō (“hold together”). Displaced native Old English singal.