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单词 continuous
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Definition of continuous in English:

continuous

adjective kənˈtɪnjʊəskənˈtɪnjuəs
  • 1Forming an unbroken whole; without interruption.

    the whole performance is enacted in one continuous movement
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He pulled his wand out of his robes and began to concentrate and wave it around with a continuous wrist movement.
    • People with Huntington's disease need to have a high calorie diet because they burn more calories with their continuous movement.
    • But the airport is no longer inactive during the afternoons, as there is continuous movement of flights.
    • And there is no proper mechanism in place to monitor the fire safety measures in buildings on a continuous basis.
    • The residents in the area were faced with continuous flooding on many occasions over a long number of years.
    • During that offensive, there were nine days of continuous bombing over a 60 square mile area.
    • The continuous monitoring of the lake ecology reveals far-reaching changes in its environment.
    • Cotton is a crop that requires continuous monitoring for its nutrient requirement.
    • A comprehensive assessment and continuous monitoring of the effects should be undertaken.
    • Neither should life be frittered away because of endless procrastination and continuous introspection.
    • This position goes against all appearances, which constrain our senses to believe that the sun is in continuous movement around the earth.
    • This area had been in continuous occupation for over 1,000 years.
    • Several traffic signals have been removed and there is continuous, easy movement.
    • But perhaps it still admits of a solution which does not require us to deny the possibility of continuous movement.
    • There will also be environmental monitoring around the works including additional continuous air monitoring.
    • People often lose weight because they have difficulty eating and burn more calories due to the continuous movement.
    • The department of local disaster relief blamed the damaging natural catastrophe on continuous rain in the area in recent days.
    • At the time of tooth bud formation, each tooth begins a continuous movement outward in relation to the bone.
    • A narrow band of waterside willows is continuous and is bordered on our side by a flat area 20 yards wide, then the floodbank.
    • For the purposes of this book, an urban area is defined as a single continuous and contiguous area of urban development.
    Synonyms
    continual, uninterrupted, unbroken, constant, ceaseless, incessant, steady, sustained, solid, continuing, ongoing, unceasing, without a break, permanent, non-stop, round-the-clock, always-on, persistent, unremitting, relentless, unrelenting, unabating, unrelieved, without respite, endless, unending, never-ending, perpetual, without end, everlasting, eternal, interminable
    consecutive, running
    informal with no let-up
    archaic without surcease
    1. 1.1 Forming a series with no exceptions or reversals.
      there are continuous advances in design and production
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As a rule, in order to sustain a general up-trend in stock prices there must be a continuous increase in money supply.
      • With the continuous increase in the number of graduates, the job situation is getting tougher and tougher.
      • A continuous increase in import prices would mean a fall in real income and a slowdown in personal consumption.
      • The decision to relocate and upgrade the branch was necessitated by the continuous growth of the branch.
      • It was called to protest continuous increases in oil and fuel prices.
      • The slab is designed as a continuous plate supported by the floor beams and edge girders.
      • Since then, the area has suffered continuous economic decline.
      • Accounts of technological development are retrospective stories about continuous advance.
      • The one area of reproduction which can create difficulties in accurate dating is the continuous production of a design over many years.
      • With the continuous increase in the size of herds and flocks pastoralists moved away from the settled areas around Adelaide.
      • Hang gliders have evolved by continuous improvements on previous designs.
      • Competition is not a good in itself: it is only a good if it achieves continuous improvement in areas that benefit society as a whole.
      • Without continuous and increasing demand, any pure fiat system is dead on arrival.
      • The quay was in many respects a local project, born out of local needs, given the continuous increase in trade and shipping in the port of Izmir.
      • The consequences would be a rapid, continuous, and sizable escalation of oil prices in the short and long term.
      • We have now entered an era of continuous rate increases that has no chance of turning back anytime soon.
      • A point on the block serves as guide for the repeat impression, so that the design is continuous.
      • The company, says Jeter, believes that continuous improvement is vital to its business.
      • The report and its findings will be used as an agenda for sustained and continuous improvement to enable all our students to develop and prosper.
    2. 1.2Mathematics (of a function) of which the graph is a smooth unbroken curve, i.e. one such that as the value of x approaches any given value a, the value of f(x) approaches that of f(a) as a limit.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A similar algorithm was later developed which allowed rational approximation of continuous functions defined on an interval.
      • He also studied projective geometry, algebraic curves and continuous groups in lectures given by Gustav Kohn.
      • This means that we can ignore a lot of jumps in functions and integrate them as if they were nice, smooth, continuous functions.
      • In 1873 he gave a continuous function with divergent Fourier series at any point solving a major problem.
      • He proved strong results on continuous functions containing Sierpinski's curve and wrote several papers on functional spaces.
  • 2Grammar

    another term for progressive (sense 3 of the adjective)

Usage

There is some overlap in meaning between continuous and continual, but the two words are not wholly synonymous. Both can mean roughly ‘without interruption’ (a long and continual war; five years of continuous warfare), but continuous is much more prominent in this sense and, unlike continual, can be used to refer to space as well as time, as in the development forms a continuous line along the coast. Continual, on the other hand, typically means ‘happening frequently, with intervals between’, as in the bus service has been disrupted by continual breakdowns. Overall, continuous occurs much more frequently than continual (almost five times more often in the Oxford English Corpus)

Derivatives

  • continuousness

  • noun
    • As Dyer reminds us, we have historically valued stars who appear to ‘bear witness to the continuousness of their own selves’, given that ‘sincerity and authenticity are two qualities greatly prized in stars’.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His relocations demonstrate a very specific sort of failure in the midst of a coordinate success: a failure to narrate a new identity in light of the continuousness of Englishness.
      • Made entirely of bent wood, the joints are subtly hidden to create the effect of continuousness.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin continuus 'uninterrupted', from continere 'hang together' (from con- 'together with' + tenere 'hold') + -ous.

Rhymes

sinuous
 
 

Definition of continuous in US English:

continuous

adjectivekənˈtɪnjuəskənˈtinyo͞oəs
  • 1Forming an unbroken whole; without interruption.

    the whole performance is enacted in one continuous movement
    Example sentencesExamples
    • People with Huntington's disease need to have a high calorie diet because they burn more calories with their continuous movement.
    • But perhaps it still admits of a solution which does not require us to deny the possibility of continuous movement.
    • Cotton is a crop that requires continuous monitoring for its nutrient requirement.
    • Neither should life be frittered away because of endless procrastination and continuous introspection.
    • A narrow band of waterside willows is continuous and is bordered on our side by a flat area 20 yards wide, then the floodbank.
    • The residents in the area were faced with continuous flooding on many occasions over a long number of years.
    • A comprehensive assessment and continuous monitoring of the effects should be undertaken.
    • This area had been in continuous occupation for over 1,000 years.
    • Several traffic signals have been removed and there is continuous, easy movement.
    • There will also be environmental monitoring around the works including additional continuous air monitoring.
    • For the purposes of this book, an urban area is defined as a single continuous and contiguous area of urban development.
    • During that offensive, there were nine days of continuous bombing over a 60 square mile area.
    • This position goes against all appearances, which constrain our senses to believe that the sun is in continuous movement around the earth.
    • The department of local disaster relief blamed the damaging natural catastrophe on continuous rain in the area in recent days.
    • The continuous monitoring of the lake ecology reveals far-reaching changes in its environment.
    • People often lose weight because they have difficulty eating and burn more calories due to the continuous movement.
    • He pulled his wand out of his robes and began to concentrate and wave it around with a continuous wrist movement.
    • At the time of tooth bud formation, each tooth begins a continuous movement outward in relation to the bone.
    • And there is no proper mechanism in place to monitor the fire safety measures in buildings on a continuous basis.
    • But the airport is no longer inactive during the afternoons, as there is continuous movement of flights.
    Synonyms
    continual, uninterrupted, unbroken, constant, ceaseless, incessant, steady, sustained, solid, continuing, ongoing, unceasing, without a break, permanent, non-stop, round-the-clock, always-on, persistent, unremitting, relentless, unrelenting, unabating, unrelieved, without respite, endless, unending, never-ending, perpetual, without end, everlasting, eternal, interminable
    1. 1.1 Forming a series with no exceptions or reversals.
      there are continuous advances in design and production
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The one area of reproduction which can create difficulties in accurate dating is the continuous production of a design over many years.
      • The company, says Jeter, believes that continuous improvement is vital to its business.
      • As a rule, in order to sustain a general up-trend in stock prices there must be a continuous increase in money supply.
      • With the continuous increase in the size of herds and flocks pastoralists moved away from the settled areas around Adelaide.
      • Competition is not a good in itself: it is only a good if it achieves continuous improvement in areas that benefit society as a whole.
      • The decision to relocate and upgrade the branch was necessitated by the continuous growth of the branch.
      • Without continuous and increasing demand, any pure fiat system is dead on arrival.
      • A point on the block serves as guide for the repeat impression, so that the design is continuous.
      • We have now entered an era of continuous rate increases that has no chance of turning back anytime soon.
      • Accounts of technological development are retrospective stories about continuous advance.
      • The slab is designed as a continuous plate supported by the floor beams and edge girders.
      • Hang gliders have evolved by continuous improvements on previous designs.
      • It was called to protest continuous increases in oil and fuel prices.
      • The quay was in many respects a local project, born out of local needs, given the continuous increase in trade and shipping in the port of Izmir.
      • With the continuous increase in the number of graduates, the job situation is getting tougher and tougher.
      • The report and its findings will be used as an agenda for sustained and continuous improvement to enable all our students to develop and prosper.
      • A continuous increase in import prices would mean a fall in real income and a slowdown in personal consumption.
      • The consequences would be a rapid, continuous, and sizable escalation of oil prices in the short and long term.
      • Since then, the area has suffered continuous economic decline.
    2. 1.2Mathematics (of a function) of which the graph is a smooth unbroken curve, i.e. one such that as the value of x approaches any given value a, the value of f(x) approaches that of f(a) as a limit.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A similar algorithm was later developed which allowed rational approximation of continuous functions defined on an interval.
      • He also studied projective geometry, algebraic curves and continuous groups in lectures given by Gustav Kohn.
      • In 1873 he gave a continuous function with divergent Fourier series at any point solving a major problem.
      • He proved strong results on continuous functions containing Sierpinski's curve and wrote several papers on functional spaces.
      • This means that we can ignore a lot of jumps in functions and integrate them as if they were nice, smooth, continuous functions.
  • 2Grammar

    another term for progressive (sense 3 of the adjective)

Usage

There is some overlap in meaning between continuous and continual, but the two words are not wholly synonymous. Both can mean roughly ‘without interruption’ (a long and continual war; five years of continuous warfare), but continuous is much more prominent in this sense and, unlike continual, can be used to refer to space as well as time, as in the development forms a continuous line along the coast. Continual, on the other hand, typically means ‘happening frequently, with intervals between,’ as in the bus service has been disrupted by continual breakdowns. Overall, continuous occurs much more frequently than continual (almost five times more often in the Oxford English Corpus)

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin continuus ‘uninterrupted’, from continere ‘hang together’ (from con- ‘together with’ + tenere ‘hold’) + -ous.

 
 
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