Continuity meaning

kŏn'tə-no͝o'ĭ-tē, -nyo͝o'-
The definition of continuity refers to something occurring in an uninterrupted state, or on a steady and ongoing basis.

When you are always there for your child to listen to him and care for him every single day, this is an example of a situation where you give your child a sense of continuity.

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The state or quality of being continuous.
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Spoken matter serving to link parts of a radio or television program so that no break occurs.
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An uninterrupted succession or flow; a coherent whole.
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The state or quality of being continuous; connectedness; coherence.
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A continuous flow, series, or succession; unbroken, coherent whole.
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Continuous duration.
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A series of comments or announcements connecting the parts of a radio or TV program.
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The script or story of a comic strip.
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Smooth and matching transitions from one shot or sequence to the next.
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The practice of creating and maintaining a smooth and continuous plan or record of the physical details of a film, TV program, etc.
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A script that contains such details.
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Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.

Considerable continuity of attention is needed to read German philosophy.

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(uncountable, mathematics) A characteristic property of a continuous function.
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A narrative device in episodic fiction where previous and/or future events in a story series are accounted for in present stories.
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A detailed script or scenario consulted to avoid discrepancies from shot to shot in a film, allowing the various scenes to be shot out of order.
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Origin of continuity

From Middle French continuité

Sentence Examples

  • Other cases arise when we consider the continuity of a function.

  • Absolute continuity of motion is not comprehensible to the human mind.

  • as interruptions of the continuity of nature " (Das Wesen des Christentums, p. 17).

  • In both cases it can be shown to be in immediate continuity with the coating of nerve-cells forming part of the longitudinal cords.

  • The Ego he considers not an entity sharply distinguished from the Non-ego, but merely, as it were, a medium of continuity of sensory impressions.

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