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Adjective: continuous  kun'tin-yoo-us
  1. Continuing in time or space without interruption
    "a continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar atoms results in the emission of light"; "lived in continuous fear"; "a continuous row of warehouses";
    - uninterrupted
     
  2. (mathematics) of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity

See also: around-the-clock, ceaseless, consecutive, constant, continual, continuity, day-and-night, dogging, endless, free burning, incessant, never-ending, nonstop, non-stop, perpetual, persistence, persisting, round-the-clock, straight, sustained, unbroken, unceasing, unremitting

Antonym: discontinuous

Encyclopedia: Continuous, nowhere differentiable function