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continuous | izmir |

As an adjective continuous

is without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time.

As a proper noun izmir is

a major turkish port city situated midway along the western anatolian seaboard, geographically continuous with the ancient city of smyrna.

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

    See also

    * constant * contiguous

    References

    izmir

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (uncommon)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A major Turkish port city situated midway along the western Anatolian seaboard, geographically continuous with the ancient city of Smyrna.
  • * 1954', Amerikan K?z Koleji [aut.] and Margaret W. Meyer [ed.], '''''?zmir : The Gateway to Turkey (Piyasa Matbaas?), main title
  • * 2000 , Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls, Turkey , page 14
  • One major problem in towns of all sizes is the lack of street signs, but almost every local tourist office can provide you with a map. City tourist offices almost always provide acceptable maps; those for ?stanbul and ?zmir are as good as any you pay for.
  • * 2009 , James Bainbridge, Turkey , page 221
  • It may be Turkey’s third-largest city in terms of population, but in the congestion stakes ?zmir has to be challenging for top honours.

    Usage notes

    * The spelling (term) is technically incorrect because [[w:Dotted and dotless I, Turkish has two forms of the letter ).

    Synonyms

    * (l)