Thesaurus: continuous

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1. a. 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.
2. a. Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
3. adj. continuing in time or space without interruption
4. adj. of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity
5. 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. he can hear its continuous murmur. Longfellow. 2. (Bot.) Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated. 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. 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.
6. Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; notjoined or articulated. Continuous brake (Railroad), a brake which isattached to each car a train, and can be caused to operate in all thecars simultaneously from a point on any car or on the engine.-- Continuous impost. See Impost.
7. j:100 a. continuing in time or space without interruption a. of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity