Adjective

(en adjective)

Very swift or quick.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=5 citation , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Chico Harlan

, volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Japan pockets the subsidy … , passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}

Steep, changing altitude quickly. (of a slope)

Needing only a brief exposure time. (of a lens, plate, film, etc.)

(England, dialectal) Violent, severe.

(obsolete, dialectal) Happy.

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.