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continuity | x |

As a noun continuity

is lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

continuity

English

Noun

  • Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.
  • Considerable continuity of attention is needed to read German philosophy.
  • (uncountable, mathematics) A characteristic property of a continuous function.
  • *
  • A narrative device in episodic fiction where previous and/or future events in a story series are accounted for in present stories.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 29 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992) citation , page= , passage=In “Treehouse Of Horror” episodes, the rules aren’t just different—they don’t even exist. If writers want Homer to kill Flanders or for a segment to end with a marriage between a woman and a giant ape, they can do so without worrying about continuity or consistency or fans griping that the gang is behaving out of character.}}

    Antonyms

    * discontinuity

    Derived terms

    * discontinuity * sequential continuity * uniform continuity

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.
  • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
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  • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----