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continuously

adv
/kənˈtɪnjuəsli/

Etymology

From continuous + -ly.

  1. borrowed from continuus
  2. formed as continuously — “continuous + -ly”

Definitions

  1. Without pause.

    • The river continuously flows to the sea, it will never pause to let us cross on dry land.
    • In the year 1633, the Bridget Nuns, near Xanthus, behaved like sheep, jumping about and bleating continuously.
    • George C. Edler (1889-1987) of Bethesda, MD kept a handwritten diary continuously from 20 Sep 1909, a total of 78 years.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at continuously. 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 continuously. 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 continuously

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

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