Continuous vs Unaccountable - What's the difference?
continuous | unaccountable |
Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time.
* 1847 , , Ticknor and Fields (1854), page 90:
Without intervening space; continued; protracted; extended.
(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.
(grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.
inexplicable; unable to account for, or explain
not responsible; free from accountability or control
(Inexplicable)
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(Not responsible)
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As adjectives the difference between continuous and unaccountable
is that continuous is without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time while unaccountable is inexplicable; unable to account for, or explain.continuous
English
Adjective
(-)- a continuous current of electricity
- he can hear its continuous murmur
- a continuous line of railroad
- Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected.