Adjective

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Without an end.

Without stop or pause, incessant.

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Adjective

(-)

Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time.

a continuous current of electricity

* 1847 , , Ticknor and Fields (1854), page 90:

he can hear its continuous murmur

Without intervening space; continued; protracted; extended.

a continuous line of railroad

(botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.

(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 .

(mathematics, more generally, of a function) Such that each open set in the range has an open preimage.

Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected.

(grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.