- uninterrupted in time; without cessation: continuous coughing during the concert.
- being in immediate connection or spatial relationship: a continuous series of blasts; a continuous row of warehouses.
- progressive (def. 7).
- prolonged without interruption; unceasing
- in an unbroken series or pattern
- (of a function or curve) changing gradually in value as the variable changes in value. A function f is continuous if at every value a of the independent variable the difference between f(x) and f(a) approaches zero as x approaches a
- (of a variable) having a continuum of possible values so that its distribution requires integration rather than summation to determine its cumulative probability
- grammar another word for progressive (def. 8)
