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.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.

The consistent use of Chinglish in China can be very annoying, apart from some initial amusement.

He is very consistent in his political choices: economy good or bad, he always votes Labour!

Compatible, accordant.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01

, author=Steven Sloman , title=The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation , volume=100, issue=1, page=74 , magazine= citation , passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}

(logic) Of a set of statements, such that no contradiction logically follows from them.