continuous

continuous
    adj 1: continuing in time or space without interruption; "a
           continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar atoms
           results in the emission of light"- James Jeans; "a
           continuous bout of illness lasting six months"; "lived in
           continuous fear"; "a continuous row of warehouses"; "a
           continuous line has no gaps or breaks in it"; "moving
           midweek holidays to the nearest Monday or Friday allows
           uninterrupted work weeks" [syn: {continuous},
           {uninterrupted}] [ant: {discontinuous}, {noncontinuous}]
    2: of a function or curve; extending without break or
       irregularity [ant: {discontinuous}]
    

Continuous \Con*tin"u*ous\, a. [L. continuus, fr. continere to
   hold together. See {Continent}.]
   1. Without break, cessation, or interruption; without
      intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken;
      continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted;
      extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous
      current of electricity.
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            he can hear its continuous murmur.    --Longfellow.
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   2. (Bot.) Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not
      interrupted; not joined or articulated.
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   {Continuous brake} (Railroad), a brake which is attached to
      each car a train, and can be caused to operate in all the
      cars simultaneously from a point on any car or on the
      engine.

   {Continuous impost}. See {Impost}.

   Syn: {Continuous}, {Continual}.

   Usage: Continuous is the stronger word, and denotes that the
          continuity or union of parts is absolute and
          uninterrupted; as, a continuous sheet of ice; a
          continuous flow of water or of argument. So Daniel
          Webster speaks of "a continuous and unbroken strain of
          the martial airs of England." Continual, in most
          cases, marks a close and unbroken succession of
          things, rather than absolute continuity. Thus we speak
          of continual showers, implying a repetition with
          occasional interruptions; we speak of a person as
          liable to continual calls, or as subject to continual
          applications for aid, etc. See {Constant}.
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133 Moby Thesaurus words for "continuous":
      abiding, accordant, ageless, alike, articulated, automatic,
      balanced, catenated, ceaseless, chronological, coeternal,
      concatenated, connected, consecutive, consistent, consonant,
      constant, continual, continued, continuing, correspondent,
      cyclical, dateless, direct, durational, durative, endless, equable,
      equal, eternal, eterne, even, ever-being, ever-durable,
      ever-during, ever-recurring, everlasting, everliving, featureless,
      flat, frequent, gapless, haunting, homogeneous, immediate,
      immemorial, immutable, incessant, indefatigable, indestructible,
      infinite, interminable, invariable, joined, jointless, lasting,
      level, linked, measured, mechanical, methodic, monolithic,
      monotonous, never-ceasing, never-ending, nonstop, nonterminating,
      nonterminous, of a piece, olamic, ordered, orderly, perdurable,
      perennial, periodic, permanent, perpetual, persistent, reappearing,
      recurrent, recurring, regular, remaining, repetitive, returning,
      revenant, robotlike, round-the-clock, running, seamless,
      sempiternal, sequent, sequential, serial, serried, smooth, stable,
      staying, steadfast, steady, sticking, straight, sustained,
      systematic, temporal, thematic, thick-coming, tight, timeless,
      twenty-four-hour, ubiquitous, unbroken, unceasing, unchangeable,
      unchanged, unchanging, undeviating, undifferentiated,
      undiversified, undying, unending, uniform, unintermitted,
      unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unrelieved,
      unremitting, unruffled, unstopped, unvaried, unvarying,
      without end