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Definition of Continuous

1. Adjective. Continuing in time or space without interruption. "Moving midweek holidays to the nearest Monday or Friday allows uninterrupted work weeks"

2. Adjective. Of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity.

Definition of Continuous

1. a. 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.

Definition of Continuous

1. Adjective. Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time. ¹

2. Adjective. Without intervening space; continued; protracted; extended. ¹

3. Adjective. (botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated. ¹

4. Adjective. (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 $D$. ¹

5. Adjective. (mathematics more generally of a function) Such that each open set in the range has an open preimage. ¹

6. Adjective. (grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Continuous

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Continuous

1. Not interrupted, having no interruption. Origin: L. Continuus This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Continuous

continuedly continuedness continuer continuers continues continuest continueth continuing continuingly continuities

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Literary usage of Continuous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1918)
"A continuous one-to-one reciprocal transformation of space transforms any ... continuous families of sets of points. The notion of continuous curve has the ..."

2. Lectures on the Theory of Functions of Real Variables by James Pierpont (1912)
"CHAPTER XIV DIScontinuous FUNCTIONS Properties of continuous Functions 457. 1. In Chapter VII of Volume I we have discussed some of the elementary ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"In a paper published in the' Proceedings of the Royal Society,'* reasons were given for believing that the back-ground of continuous rays in the spark ..."

4. American Journal of Physiology by American Physiological Society (1887- ). (1913)
"233 THE PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECT OF INTERMITTENT AND OF continuous LIGHTS OF EQUAL INTENSITIES. BY GH PARKER AND BM PATTEN. TN the course of the construction of ..."

5. A Text-book on Roofs and Bridges by Mansfield Merriman, Henry Sylvester Jacoby (1907)
"CHAPTER I. continuous BRIDGES. ART.. INTRODUCTION. Probably over ninety per cent of all roof and bridge structures are formed by the use of the simple beams ..."

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