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continuous

adj
/kənˈtɪn.juː.əs/

Etymology

From Latin continuus, from contineō (“hold together”). Displaced native Old English singal.

  1. borrowed from continuus

Definitions

  1. Without stopping

    Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.

    • a continuous current of electricity
    • he can hear its continuous murmur

  2. Without intervening space

    Without intervening space; continued.

    • a continuous line of railroad
    • The dynamic tests at Wildenrath use continuous test tracks built on the site of a former Royal Air Force station that was vacated after the end of the Cold War.

  3. Not deviating or varying from uniformity

    Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Such that, for every x in the domain, for each small open interval D about f(x), there's…

      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.

    2. Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space,…

      Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).

      • Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected.

    3. Expressing an ongoing action or state.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

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

8 hops · closes at continuous

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