Constitutive vs Continuous - What's the difference?
constitutive | continuous |
having the power or authority to constitute, establish or enact something
having the power or authority to appoint someone to office
extremely important, essential
that forms a constituent part of something else
(biochemistry) (of an enzyme ) that is continuously produced at a constant rate
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 constitutive and continuous
is that constitutive is having the power or authority to constitute, establish or enact something while continuous is without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time.constitutive
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(more)continuous
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(-)- 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.