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continuity

noun
/ˌkɒn.tɪˈnjuː.ɪ.ti/CA/ˌkɑn.tɪˈn(j)u.ə.ti/US/ˌkɒn.tɪˈnɪu̯.ɪ.ti/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French continuité, from Latin continuitas. By surface analysis, continu(e) + -ity.

  1. derived from continuitas
  2. borrowed from continuité

Definitions

  1. Lack of interruption or disconnection

    Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.

    • While troubleshooting the heating and cooling system, we found a lack of continuity in a circuit that is normally closed.
    • Considerable continuity of attention is needed to read German philosophy.

  2. A characteristic property of a continuous function.

  3. A narrative device in episodic fiction where previous and/or future events in a series of…

    A narrative device in episodic fiction where previous and/or future events in a series of stories are accounted for in present stories.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A canon

      A canon; one specific fictional universe within a multiverse.

    2. Consistency between multiple shots depicting the same scene but possibly filmed on…

      Consistency between multiple shots depicting the same scene but possibly filmed on different occasions.

    3. The announcements and messages inserted by the broadcaster between programmes.

    4. Being the successor to a no longer extant organization, operating under the same name and…

      Being the successor to a no longer extant organization, operating under the same name and usually claiming to be the same entity.

      • The irony that was one of the other republican splinter groups in the field, the Continuity IRA, also claimed by virtue of its name that it was the authentic IRA.
      • Stalls lined the corridors: the continuity SDP was there, as was the Free Speech Union, along with countless anti-trans organisations.

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Derived

bicontinuity, business continuity planning, continuity announcer, continuity nod, continuity series, discontinuity, equicontinuity, hemicontinuity, Lipschitz continuity, noncontinuity, retcon, Scott continuity, semicontinuity, sequential continuity, solution of continuity, uniform continuity

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at continuity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at continuity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at continuity

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA