Dictionary Definition
continuity
Noun
1 uninterrupted connection or union [ant:
discontinuity]
2 a detailed script used in making a film in
order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot
3 the property of a continuous and connected
period of time [syn: persistence]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality
of being continuous
in space or time.
- Considerable continuity of attention is needed to read German philosophy.
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
- Czech: spojitost
- Finnish: jatkuvuus, yhtäjaksoisuus
- French: continuité
- German: Kontinuität
- Hebrew: המשכיות (hemshekhiut)
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Continuity may mean:
In mathematics:
- Parametric continuity
- Geometric continuity
- Continuous function with real or complex values
- Continuous probability distribution or random variable in probability and statistics
- Continuity theorem
- Continuous function between topological spaces.
- continuous function in set theory between ordinals.
- A continuous functor is one that preserves limits in category theory.
- Continuity equation.
'''Other:
- Continuity of Operations
- Continuity in fiction
- Continuity in Broadcasting
- An unbroken electrical path in an electrical circuit or connector
See also
continuity in French: Continu
continuity in Lithuanian: Tolydumas
continuity in Dutch: Continuïteit
continuity in Portuguese:
Continuidade
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accordance, action, anagnorisis, angle, architectonics, architecture, argument, atmosphere, background, book, calm, catastrophe, ceaselessness, characterization,
chattering, chronology, color, coming after, complication, connectedness, connection, consecution, consecutiveness,
consistency,
consonance, constancy, constant flow,
continualness,
continuance,
continuation,
contrivance,
correspondence,
cue, degree, denouement, descent, design, development, device, duration, duree, endurance, episode, equability, equanimity, equilibrium, evenness, extension, fable, falling action, following, gimmick, gradation, hierarchy, homogeneity, incessancy, incident, lastingness, lengthening, libretto, line, lineage, lines, local color, logical
sequence, maintenance, monolithism, mood, motif, movement, mythos, noninterruption,
order, order of
succession, orderliness, oscillation, period, peripeteia, perpetuation, perpetuity, perseverance, persistence, place, plan, playbook, plot, posteriority, postposition, procession, progress, progression, prolongation, protraction, psychological
time, pulsation,
pursuance, quick fire,
rank, rapid fire, rapid
recurrence, rapid succession, rapidity, recognition, regularity, repetition, rising action,
rotation, run, scenario, scene plot, scheme, score, script, secondary plot, sequence, serial order,
series, shooting script,
side, slant, space, space-time, stability, staccato, staying power,
steadfastness,
steadiness, story, straight course, structure, stuttering, subject, subjunction, subordination, subplot, succession, successiveness, suffixation, sustained
action, sustainment,
sustenance, switch, tattoo, tense, term, text, the future, the past, the
present, thematic development, theme, tide, time, timebinding, tone, topic, twist, uniformity, unintermission,
uninterrupted course, uninterruption, unity, unremittingness,
unruffledness,
vibration, way, while