Consecutive vs Continuous - What's the difference?
consecutive | continuous |
following, in succession, without interruption
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=May 9
, author=Jonathan Wilson
, title=Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao
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Having some logical sequence
Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time.
* 1847 , , Ticknor and Fields (1854), page 90:
Without intervening space; continued; protracted; extended.
(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.
(grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.
As adjectives the difference between consecutive and continuous
is that consecutive is following, in succession, without interruption while continuous is without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time.consecutive
English
Adjective
(-)citation, page= , passage=He follows Frédi Kanouté, who achieved the feat in 2006 and 2007 for Sevilla, in scoring in consecutive Uefa Cup/Europa League finals.}}
Antonyms
* nonconsecutive * simultaneouslyDerived terms
* consecutively * consecutivenesscontinuous
English
Adjective
(-)- a continuous current of electricity
- he can hear its continuous murmur
- a continuous line of railroad
- Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected.