continuous

English

/kənˈtɪn.juː.əs/

adj
Definitions
  • Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption
  • Without intervening space; continued
  • (botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
  • (analysis) 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.
  • (mathematics) Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).
  • (grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French continueus borrowed from Latin continuus (continuous).

Origin

Latin

continuus

Gloss

continuous

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