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Continuous vs Indeterminate - What's the difference?

continuous | indeterminate |

In botany|lang=en terms the difference between continuous and indeterminate

is that continuous is (botany) not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated while indeterminate is (botany) of inflorescences: not topped with some form of terminal bud.

As adjectives the difference between continuous and indeterminate

is that continuous is without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time while indeterminate is not accurately determined or determinable.

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

    indeterminate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not accurately determined or determinable.
  • Imprecise or vague.
  • (biology) Of growth: with no genetically defined end, and thus theoretically limitless.
  • (botany) Of inflorescences: not topped with some form of terminal bud.
  • intersex

    • Synonyms

    * indeterminant

    Antonyms

    * determinate