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
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bicontinuous English
- continuously English
- continuously habitable zone English
- continuousness English
- discontinuous English
- discontinuously English
- discontinuousness English
- equicontinuous English
- equicontinuously English
- hemicontinuous English
- noncontinuous English
- pseudocontinuous English
- quasicontinuous English
- semicontinuous English
- semicontinuously English
- subcontinuous English
- contineo Latin
- continuitas Latin
- continuo Latin
- continuus Latin
- continuo Italian
- continuo Spanish, Castilian
- contino Portuguese
- contínuo Portuguese
- continu Old French
- continuel Old French
- continueus Old French
- continu Catalan, Valencian
- continuo Galician
- continuu Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan