cont

Adjective

continuous (not comparable)

1. Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
   • the continuous roar of a waterfall

   Synonyms:

   perpetual, nonstop, incessant, ongoing

   Antonyms:

   broken, discontinuous, discrete, intermittent, interrupted

2. Without intervening space; continued.
   • a continuous line of railroad

   Synonyms:

   protracted, extended, connected, continued, unbroken

   Antonyms:

   broken, disconnected, disjoint

3. Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
4. 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.
5. (broadly) Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).
   • Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected.
6. Expressing an ongoing action or state.

Verb

continue (third-person singular simple present continues, present participle continuing, simple past and past participle continued)

1. (transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
   • Shall I continue speaking, or will you just interrupt me again?

   Synonyms:

   extend, run

2. (transitive) To make last; to prolong.
   • Can you account him wise or discreet that would willingly have his health, and yet will do nothing that should procure or continue it?, New York, 2001, p.74
3. (transitive) To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position, etc.
   • […] dip the mouth of it within the second glass and remove your finger; continue it in that posture for a time, and it will unmingle the wine from the water […]1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...
4. (intransitive, copulative sense obsolete) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
   • Here to continue, and build up here / A growing empire.1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
5. (intransitive) To resume.
   • When will the concert continue?

   Synonyms:

   carry on, go on, proceed, resume

6. (transitive) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
   • This meeting has been continued to the thirteenth of July.

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