Definition of "continuous"

continuous

/kənˈtɪn.juː.əs/

adjective
not comparable
1. Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
  Quotations
  he can hear its continuous murmur
  1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, (please specify either |part=I or II)
2. Without intervening space; continued.
  Quotations
  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.
  2023 November 29, Philip Haigh, “New Piccadilly Line trains put to the test”, in RAIL, number 997, page 26
3. (botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
4. (mathematical analysis, of a function) 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.
5. (mathematics, more generally, of a function between two topological spaces) Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).
6. (grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.

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