Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Recurring regularly or frequently.
- adjective Not interrupted; steady.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Proceeding without interruption or cessation; not intermitting; unceasing; continuous.
- Of frequent recurrence; often repeated; very frequent: as, the charitable man has continual applications for alms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Proceeding without interruption or cesstaion; continuous; unceasing; lasting; abiding.
- adjective Occuring in steady and rapid succession; very frequent; often repeated.
- adjective (Math.) quantities in continued proportion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Recurring in steady, rapidsuccession . - adjective proscribed
Seemingly continuous ;appearing to have noend orinterruption . - adjective proscribed Forming a continuous
series .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective `continual' (meaning seemingly uninterrupted) is often used interchangeably with `continuous' (meaning without interruption)
- adjective occurring without interruption; chiefly restricted to what recurs regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series
Etymologies
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Examples
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During the papal blessing, Pope Benedict spoke out against what he called the continual slaughter in Iraq.
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Gertrude Stein wrote in what she called the continual present and she wrote with the rhythm of whatever was going on around her at the moment as she was writing I think of John Cage as the Gertrude Stein of music.
Living in the NOW The Daily Growler 2006
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Coral8, on the other hand, has targeted a much broader swathe of the market, including what it calls continual intelligence and including non-financial environments.
Independent Information Technology and business analysis from IT-Director.com 2009
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This long-lasting collaboration with Africa and Asia has resulted in continual exchanges between young scientists from the respective countries and researchers in Paris.
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The association is especially active in continual efforts to minimize the effect of what many residents said is the neighborhood's worst feature - traffic from Interstate 395, which exits directly into the neighborhood on Arlington Ridge Road.
The Arlington Ridge neighborhood: Walking distance to everything Amy Reinink 2010
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As for me and mine, we are in continual thanksgiving to the Lord for all of the blessings He has bestowed upon us.
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If Pelosi and Reid wanted to, they could force the Congress to stay in continual session without breaking for vacations, Sundays and holidays.
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Government should live in continual fear of its citizens and a free press.
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They are based in continual misrepresentations of the facts.
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And, is it possible that all social institutions — both ethereal and physical — engaged in continual dialectic and discursive exchanges?
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