continuous
Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
Adjective 4 meanings
Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
“the continuous roar of a waterfall”
Without intervening space; continued.
“a continuous line of railroad”
Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
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.
Etymology
From Latin continuus, from contineō (“hold together”). Displaced native Old English singal.
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CONTINUOUS at a glance
CONTINUOUS has 10 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (C 3 + O 1 + N 1 + T 1 + I 1 + N 1 + U 1 + O 1 + U 1 + S 1) and 17 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,928 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with continuous
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