continuous
/kənˈtɪn.juː.əs/
continuous adjective: without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
Adjective
continuous (not comparable)
- Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
- the continuous roar of a waterfall
- a continuous current of electricity
- Antonyms:
- broken, discontinuous, discrete, intermittent, interrupted
- Without intervening space; continued.
- a continuous line of railroad
- […] the Plan incorporates in proper combination every available modern technique, including extensive electrification on the new standard high-voltage a.c. system at a frequency of 50 cycles; main-line diesel traction as a half-way house to electrification; lightweight diesel trains for secondary...1958 January, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 15
- Synonyms:
- protracted, extended, connected, continued, unbroken
- Antonyms:
- broken, disconnected, disjoint
- Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
- 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.
- 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.
- Expressing an ongoing action or state.
continuous meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
continuous in Hindi
- without break, cessation, or interruption in time
- निरंतर nirantar
- without break, cessation, or interruption in space
- निरंतर nirantar
continuous in Tamil
- without break, cessation, or interruption in time
- தொடர் toṭar
continuous in Marathi
- continuous, persistent
- निरंतर nirantar
- continuous
- संतत santat, अखंड akhaṇḍa
continuous in Urdu
- مسلسل, لگاتار
More languagesFewer languages
- continuous in Bengali
- অনবচ্ছিন্ন onbocchinno
- continuous in Malayalam
- ഇടവിടാതെയുളള, തുടർച്ചയായ, തടസ്സമില്ലാതെയുള്ള, വിരാമമില്ലാതെയുള്ള
- continuous in Kannada
- ನಿರಂತರ nirantara
- continuous in Punjabi
- ਜਾਰੀ jārī
- continuous in Gujarati
- સતત satat
- continuous in Odia
- ଅଖଣ୍ଡ ରାଜତ୍ୱ akhaṇḍa rājatwa
- continuous in Nepali
- निरन्तर
- continuous in Tagalog
- tuluyan
- continuous in Arabic
- مُتَوَاصِل mutawāṣil, مُتَّصِل muttaṣil
- continuous in Indonesian
- kontinu, terus-menerus
- continuous in Persian
- مداوم modâvem, مستمر mostamar, بیوقفه bê-vaqfe, پیوسته peyvaste
- continuous in Vietnamese
- liên tục, không ngừng, không dừng, tiếp diễn
Examples of continuous in a sentence
- The derivative of a continuous, differentiable function that twice crosses the axis must have a zero.
- The continuous profitability of the company is based on its many proprietary products.
- The plant had two batch assembly lines for packaging, as well as a continuous feed production line.
Synonyms of continuous
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Antonyms
- broken
- discontinuous
- discrete
- intermittent
- interrupted
- disconnected
- disjoint
- non-continuous
- noncontinuous
- ending
1 more antonymsFewer antonyms
Origin of continuous
From Latin continuus, from contineō (“hold together”). Displaced native Old English singal.
Words formed from continuous
- bicontinuous
- continuous aspect
- continuous bag of words
- continuous brake
- continuous-braked
- continuous clock
- continuous delivery
- continuous delivery pipeline
- continuous erythropoietin receptor activator
- continuous impost
- continuous integration
- continuously
- continuousness
- continuous phase
- continuous random variable
- continuous shot
- continuous take
- continuous tense
- continuous time
- continuous track
- continuous variable
- continuous variable valve timing
- continuous wave
- continuous wavelet transform
- equicontinuous
- future continuous
- future perfect continuous
- hemicontinuous
- lower semi-continuous
- past continuous
- past perfect continuous
- present continuous
- present perfect continuous
- pseudocontinuous
- quasicontinuous
- Scott-continuous
- semicontinuous
- subcontinuous
- uncontinuous
- upper semi-continuous
- continuous distribution
- continuous function
- continuous group
- continuous line illusion
- continuous map
- continuous mapping theorem
- continuous space
- continuous vector bundle
- continuously differentiable function
- Lipschitz continuous
- uniformly continuous
Phrases with continuous
- continuous times
- continuous waves
- continuous clocks
- continuous phases
- continuous tenses
- continuous functions
- continuous variables
- continuous deliveries
- continuous integrations
- continuous bags of words
- continuous delivery pipelines
- continuous wavelet transforms
2 more phrasesFewer phrases
Questions about continuous
- What does continuous mean?
- Continuous means without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
- What is continuous in Hindi?
- Continuous in Hindi is निरंतर (nirantar). See Continuous meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is continuous?
- Continuous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce continuous?
- Continuous is pronounced /kənˈtɪn.juː.əs/.
Words near continuous in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: continuous (page history and authors); अखंड (Marathi) (page history and authors); continuous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); continuous (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ನಿರಂತರ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਜਾਰੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); સતત (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଅଖଣ୍ଡ ରାଜତ୍ୱ (Odia) (page history and authors); continuous (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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