Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of being continuous.
- noun An uninterrupted succession or flow; a coherent whole.
- noun A detailed script or scenario consulted to avoid discrepancies from shot to shot in a film, allowing the various scenes to be shot out of order.
- noun Spoken matter serving to link parts of a radio or television program so that no break occurs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology, the existence of successive generations of living beings without any gap or interruption of material composition. See
germinal continuity . - noun Uninterrupted connection of parts in space or time; uninterruptedness.
- noun In mathematics and philosophy, a connection of points (or other elements) as intimate as that of the instants or points of an interval of time: thus, the continuity of space consists in this, that a point can move from any one position to any other so that at each instant it shall have a definite and distinct position in space.
- noun In zoology and anatomy, that part of a thing which lies between the two ends, as the shaft of a long bone, or its diaphysis, as distinguished from its condyles or epiphyses, or the middle portion of the bill of a bird, as distinguished from the base and apex.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the state of being continuous; uninterrupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion.
- noun (Math. & Physics) the principle that nothing passes from one state to another without passing through all the intermediate states.
- noun (Math.) See under
Solution .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Lack of
interruption ordisconnection ; the quality of beingcontinuous in space or time. - noun uncountable, mathematics A characteristic property of a
continuous function . - noun A narrative device in
episodic fiction where previous and/or future events in a story series are accounted for in present stories.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot
- noun uninterrupted connection or union
- noun the property of a continuous and connected period of time
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Examples
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In short, while the approach to development in continuity is important, both practically and in principle, it is not as though this supercedes these long-utilized historical expressions, nor is it an absolute requirement it be approached in each and every instance.
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Once again, Enterprise delivers an episode steeped in continuity from the original series and it gets it all right.
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Erie Stanley Gardner has never wavered in the title continuity of his Perry Mason novels.
In The Queens' Parlour Queen, Ellery 1864
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This continuity is an obstacle in front of their power-greed, so they give us the black legend with ever-worse lies added on to it.
New World Apocalypse, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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He had seen the plans for what they called continuity of government.
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And with perhaps as few as four new starters — Allen and Madieu Williams on defense, Berrian and fullback Thomas Tapeh on offense — they believe their continuity is a distinct advantage.
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He had seen the plans for what they called continuity of government.
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He had seen the plans for what they called continuity of government.
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He had seen the plans for what they called continuity of government.
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And because of the raised threat level, the Pentagon today will conduct what it calls a continuity of government exercise.
gangerh commented on the word continuity
Repeating the action exactly the same for the camera. Scenes may be split into several different shooting days meaning that you may be needed for more than one day of filming for the same scene.
June 8, 2008