Continuous

Quick meaning: Continuous is an adjective meaning Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.

Meaning

Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.

More Meanings

1. Without intervening space; continued.
2. (botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
3. (grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.
4. (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.
5. (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).

Example Sentences

a continuous line of railroad

he can hear its continuous murmur

a continuous current of electricity

Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected.

Synonyms for continuous

Depending on context, synonyms include amaranthine, solid, ceaseless, constant, continual, continuate.

Antonyms for continuous

Common opposites include discontinuous, non-continuous, noncontinuous, broken, discrete, ending.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nonstop, uninterrupted, unceasing, never-ending, ceaseless, incessant.

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