Infinity vs Continuity - What's the difference?
infinity | continuity |
(label) Endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of end or limit.
A number that has an infinite numerical value that cannot be counted.
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, author=Michael Riordan
, title=Tackling Infinity
, volume=100, issue=1, page=86
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An idealised point which is said to be approached by sequences of values whose magnitudes increase without bound.
(label) A number which is very large compared to some characteristic number. For example, in optics, an object which is much further away than the focal length of a lens is said to be "at infinity", as the distance of the image from the lens varies very little as the distance increases further.
(label) The symbol .
Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.
(uncountable, mathematics) A characteristic property of a continuous function.
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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)
As nouns the difference between infinity and continuity
is that infinity is endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of end or limit while continuity is lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.infinity
English
Noun
citation, passage=Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities' that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging ' infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.}}
Usage notes
In mathematics there are several different infinities; see transfinite.Antonyms
* finitySee also
* eternal * eternity * transfinitecontinuity
English
Noun
- Considerable continuity of attention is needed to read German philosophy.
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