Sequent vs Continuous - What's the difference?
sequent | continuous |
(obsolete) That comes after in time or order; subsequent.
*1860 , ,
*:Why are your songs all wild and bitter sad
*:As funeral dirges with the orphans' cries?
*:Each night since first the world was made hath had
*:A sequent day to laugh it down the skies.
That follows on as a result, conclusion etc.; consequent (to), (on), (upon).
*c. 1604 , (William Shakespeare), Measure for Measure :
*:But let my Triall, be mine owne Confession: / Immediate sentence then, and sequent death, / Is all the grace I beg.
*1897 , (Henry James), What Maisie Knew :
*:Maisie found herself clutched to her mother's breast and passionately sobbed and shrieked over, made the subject of a demonstration evidently sequent to some sharp passage just enacted.
Recurring in succession or as a series; successive, consecutive.
*c. 1603 , (William Shakespeare), Othello , I.2:
*:The Gallies Haue sent a dozen sequent Messengers / This very night, at one anothers heeles: / And many of the Consuls, rais'd and met, / Are at the Dukes already.
Something that follows in a given sequence.
*1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.30:
*:The One is somewhat shadowy. It is sometimes called God, sometimes the Good; it transcends Being, which is the first sequent upon the One.
(logic) An element of a sequence, usually a sequence in which every entry is an axiom or can be inferred from previous elements.
(obsolete) A follower.
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.
As adjectives the difference between sequent and continuous
is that sequent is (obsolete) that comes after in time or order; subsequent while continuous is without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time.As a noun sequent
is something that follows in a given sequence.sequent
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(-)- 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.