Define the word Continuous"Continuous" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Continuous \Con*tin"u*ous\, a. [L. continuus, fr. continere to
hold together. See Continent.]
1. Without break, cessation, or interruption; without
intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken;
continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted;
extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous
current of electricity.
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he can hear its continuous murmur. --Longfellow.
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2. (Bot.) Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not
interrupted; not joined or articulated.
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Continuous brake (Railroad), a brake which is attached to
each car a train, and can be caused to operate in all the
cars simultaneously from a point on any car or on the
engine.
Continuous impost. See Impost.
Syn: Continuous, Continual.
Usage: Continuous is the stronger word, and denotes that the
continuity or union of parts is absolute and
uninterrupted; as, a continuous sheet of ice; a
continuous flow of water or of argument. So Daniel
Webster speaks of "a continuous and unbroken strain of
the martial airs of England." Continual, in most
cases, 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, etc. See Constant.
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"continuous" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
continuous
adj 1: continuing in time or space without interruption; "a
continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar
atoms results in the emission of light"- James Jeans;
"a continuous bout of illness lasting six months";
"lived in continuous fear"; "a continuous row of
warehouses"; "a continuous line has no gaps or breaks
in it"; "moving midweek holidays to the nearest Monday
or Friday allows uninterrupted work weeks" [syn: uninterrupted]
[ant: discontinuous]
2: of a function or curve; extending without break or
irregularity [ant: discontinuous]
"continuous" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
133 Moby Thesaurus words for "continuous":
abiding, accordant, ageless, alike, articulated, automatic,
balanced, catenated, ceaseless, chronological, coeternal,
concatenated, connected, consecutive, consistent, consonant,
constant, continual, continued, continuing, correspondent,
cyclical, dateless, direct, durational, durative, endless, equable,
equal, eternal, eterne, even, ever-being, ever-durable,
ever-during, ever-recurring, everlasting, everliving, featureless,
flat, frequent, gapless, haunting, homogeneous, immediate,
immemorial, immutable, incessant, indefatigable, indestructible,
infinite, interminable, invariable, joined, jointless, lasting,
level, linked, measured, mechanical, methodic, monolithic,
monotonous, never-ceasing, never-ending, nonstop, nonterminating,
nonterminous, of a piece, olamic, ordered, orderly, perdurable,
perennial, periodic, permanent, perpetual, persistent, reappearing,
recurrent, recurring, regular, remaining, repetitive, returning,
revenant, robotlike, round-the-clock, running, seamless,
sempiternal, sequent, sequential, serial, serried, smooth, stable,
staying, steadfast, steady, sticking, straight, sustained,
systematic, temporal, thematic, thick-coming, tight, timeless,
twenty-four-hour, ubiquitous, unbroken, unceasing, unchangeable,
unchanged, unchanging, undeviating, undifferentiated,
undiversified, undying, unending, uniform, unintermitted,
unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unrelieved,
unremitting, unruffled, unstopped, unvaried, unvarying,
without end
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