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What is the difference between continued and continuous?

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Continuous is a related term of continued.



As adjectives the difference between continued and continuous

is that continued is prolonged; unstopped while continuous is without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time.

As a verb continued

is past tense of continue.

continued

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (dated) Prolonged; unstopped.
  • * 1797 , , J. S. Barr (editor and translator), Barr's Buffon: Buffon's Natural Hi?tory , page 20,
    • and for the pronunciation of F , a more continued ?ound is nece??ary than for that of any of the con?onants.
  • * 1819 [1736], (preface), The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature , page 93,
    • But when the exercise of the virtuous principle is more continued , oftener repeated, and more intense, as it must be in circumstances of danger, temptation, and difficulty of any kind and any degree, this tendency is increased proportionably, and a more confirmed habit is the consequence.
  • * 1820 , A. P. Wilson Philip, A Treatise on Fevers: Including the Various Species of Simple and Eruptive Fevers , page 57,
    • Instead of becoming more continued , intermittents sometimes become less so, which is always favourable.
  • Uninterrupted.
    • Related terms
    * continuedly

    Verb

    (head)
  • (continue)

    • Anagrams

    *

    continuous

    English

    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.

    • Usage notes

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    Synonyms

    * (without break, cessation, or interruption in time''): constant, continual (''but see usage notes above ), incessant, never-ending, ongoing, unbroken, unceasing, unending, uninterrupted * (without break, cessation, or interruption in space ): connected, unbroken * See also

    Antonyms

    * (without break, cessation, or interruption in time ): broken, discontinuous, discrete, intermittent, interrupted * (without break, cessation, or interruption in space ): broken, disconnected, disjoint, unbroken * (in mathematical analysis ): discontinuous, stepwise

    Derived terms

    * continuous brake * continuous impost * continuously * continuousness (in mathematics) * continuous distribution * continuous function * continuous group * continuous line illusion * continuous map * continuous mapping theorem * continuous space * continuous vector bundle * continuously differentiable function * uniformly continuous

    Related terms

    * continuity * continued * continuum

    See also

    * constant * contiguous

    References