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• The old-school way, with the chief scout having it all in his head, gave no continuity.2013 August 10, Michael Calvin, “Sport: Scouting system that reveals David Moyes' mind”, in Independent, UK, archived from the original on…. From the entry in one's head
• Edwardianism was thought to favour continuity and tradition, but the fiction often belies this.2008, C. Etherington-Wright, Gender, Professions and Discourse. From the entry Edwardianism
• “The new electoral law must guarantee governability and continuity in politics,” he told senators on Wednesday.2007 March 1, Ian Fisher, “Slim Vote of Confidence for Italy’s Leader”, in New York Times. From the entry governability
• During low points the chronicle fragmentizes as the continuity of enthusiasm becomes disrupted.2006, Josh Chetwynd, Brian Belton, British Baseball and the West Ham Club, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry fragmentize
• Fans talk of retcon—retroactive continuity—giving information that explains an earlier event, especially seeming plot contradictions or lacunae.2005, Rhonda Wilcox, Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, page 9. From the entry retcon
• A lot of people were like, "Oh, they just retconned their own continuity.2004, Eric Nolen-Weathington, Modern Masters Volume 3: Bruce Timm, page 79. From the entry retcon
• As time passed, Reginald began to acknowledge experiences of disruption in the temporal continuity of the game.1997, Frank W. Putnam, Dissociation in Children and Adolescents, page 302. From the entry coawareness
• Literary criticism is not only the beneficiary of this continuity of medium but the maleficiary.1996, Christopher B. Ricks, Essays in Appreciation, Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 348. From the entry maleficiary
• If the funniment raises a laugh, that breaks contact, as it were, and continuity.1930, Harley Granville-Barker, “Love’s Labour’s Lost”, in Prefaces to Shakespeare. From the entry funniment
• “There is a sense of age-old continuity here,” he explained in a story last year in The Spectator.2023 May 1, David Segal, “In Transylvania, Anyone With $200 Can Live Like a King. (Well, One Specific King.)”, in The New York Times. From the entry rhapsodize
• This song also creates a sense of continuity across early Mario games, since it's a remix of SMB1's original underworld theme.2016, Alyse Knorr, Super Mario Bros. 3: Boss Fight Books #13. From the entry underworld
• This contact zone is characterized by numerous transitions and continuities.Georg Bossong, Classifications, in: 2016, Adam Ledgeway, Martin Maiden (eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages (Oxford Guides to…. From the entry Gallo-Romance
• Dupont interrupts the continuity of the master narrative of lighthouse-keeping and marital and extramarital love with visually arresting mise-en-scènes and mise-en-shots.2010, Paul Matthew St, E. A. Dupont and His Contribution to British Film, Pierre: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, page 173. From the entry mise en scène
• They bear an almost same style, which shows the continuity of the Jinsha culture and the Sanxingdui culture.2007, Yinke Deng, “Sanxingdui, a Civilization Independent from the Central Plains”, in Avery Martha, Pan Yue, transl., History of China…. From the entry Jinsha
• For thousands of years the mitzvot have protected the Jewish people from these threats and ensured Jewish continuity.2000, David Golinkin, “The Whys and Hows of Consservative Halakhah”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 3, page 15. From the entry ethnocentric
• Where consociationalism and federalism overlay one another, moreover, the continuity of the latter depends on the stability of consociationalism.1995, Hudson Meadwell, “8: Quebec Independence and Secession in the Developed West”, in Sukumar Periwal, editor, Notions of Nationalism…. From the entry federalism
• The most fundamental disagreement between the deterministically-minded and the libertarianly-minded has to do with the question of man’s continuity with nature.1984, S[elwyn] A[lfred] Grave, “‘Australian Materialism’”, in A History of Philosophy in Australia, St Lucia, Qld: University of…. From the entry libertarianly
• Intricate estate planning has assured the continuity of the McCurdy family fortunes, based in California banking, aeronautics and oenoculture.1976 July 4, Martin Levin, “New Novel”, in The New York Times, page BR5. From the entry oenoculture
• There is probably nothing more essential to permanent business success than sticktoitiveness, or it might be expressed in the word continuity.1905, Ad sense: devoted to the interests of buyers of advertising, volume 18. From the entry sticktoitiveness
• Heterotypic continuity refers to the presence of one disorder at an early point in time predicting the presence of a different disorder later in life.2014, Karestan C. Koenen, Ezra Susser, editors, A Life Course Approach to Mental Disorders, page 201. From the entry heterotypic
• But the continuity of this identity exists in, and only in, its perpetual salvagings and reconstructions in the face of repeated disruptions and discontinuities.2000, Derek Sayer, The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, page 16. From the entry salvaging
• Not to mention the fact that bringing Access into continuity emphasizes the existence of at least two alternate Universes, the Marvelverse and the Amalgamverse.1997 November 23, Bala Menon, “Re: return to glory”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet), message-ID…. From the entry Amalgamverse
• Perhaps this distraction was perversely comforting for a dyed-in-the-wool antimachinist like Orr, a sense of continuity at a time of great emotional confusion.1988 March 11, Gary Rivlin, “Seven Days as Mayor”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry antimachinist
• If what has taken form acknowledges no continuity, no inheritance, no necessity, then what has taken form, again in the extremest meaning, is a beginning.1979, Mario J. Rizzo, Time, Uncertainty, and Disequilibrium. From the entry uncause
• As Professor Myerhoff writes: "The adage 'A woman's work is never done' calls attention to the continuity of woman's tasks on a daily basis."1979 April 1, Charles E. Silberman, “A Proper Way to Live”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Jul 2019. From the entry a woman's work is never done
• It creates an artificial bow-wave of work and in some cases, like TransPennine, the nature of the infrastructure work means we want some continuity," he said.2022 April 20, “Network News: MPs pursue updates on progress of National Rail Contracts”, in RAIL, number 955, page 17. From the entry bow wave
• Nevertheless, despite the continuity in staff, the new structures resulted in increased attention being paid to modern Scandinavian literature, which accompanied the establishment of Scandinavist curricula.2022, Roland Scheel, “Scandinavian Studies in Germany”, in Humanities, volume 11, number 4, Basel: MDPI, →DOI, page 88 (4). From the entry Scandinavist
• The ‘New Elizabethans’ were to be in continuity with their past, but also youthful, inventive, exploratory – a spirit most clearly to be seen in the arts.2017 February 19, Peter Webster, “The New Elizabethan Age: Culture, Society and National Identity after World War II [book review]”, in…. From the entry Elizabethan
• The advential tissues are placed on traction laterally, utilizing a sponge, and the advential tissues carefully teased off the surface, maintaining these tissues in continuity with the axillary contents.2012, Kirby I. Bland, V. Suzanne Klimberg, Master Techniques in General Surgery: Breast Surgery. From the entry advential
• The hard question for the animalist is whether bodily continuity is necessary for the survival of the animal and, if so, what kind of bodily continuity.2011, Shaun Gallagher, The Oxford Handbook of the Self, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 145. From the entry animalist
• Radio 4's continuity announcer said at the end of the show: "As many of you will have noticed, that edition of The Now Show wasn't very now.2010 March 17, “Radio 4 apologises for day old shipping forecast”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2013. From the entry now
• The noncoincidence of time, an expression of temporalizing differentiality, draws us into an unsurmisable, incalculable relationship with the world that, quite mysteriously, maintains a fine line of continuity.2005, Gray Kocchar-Lindgren, Technologics: Ghosts, The Incalculable, and the Suspension of Animation, SUNY Press, P. 192. From the entry unsurmisable
• If fetials were originally senators, this would explain the parallel fetial and senatorial function in "international relations" and account for the continuity between fetials and later senatorial legates.2005, Richard E. Mitchell, “The Definition of Patres and Plebs: An End to the Struggle of the Orders”, in Kurt A[rnold] Raaflaub, editor…. From the entry fetial
• Here Axioti opposes to ethnocentric archaeolatry one's "painful" relation to the present and past, which is based on the search for authentic, not superficial, signals of this continuity .1992, Maria Kakavoulia, Interior Monologue and Its Discursive Formation in Melpo Axioti's Dyskoles Nychtes. From the entry archaeolatry
• Although the literature of Puerto Rico far surpasses that of the Neo-Rican, or self-styled Rican, in the United States, the latter represents a continuity of the island heritage.1974 November, María Teresa Babín, “Introduction: The Path and the Voice”, in María Teresa Babín, Stan Steiner, editors, Borinquen: An…. From the entry Neo-Rican

Meaning of continuity

1. noun Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.
2. noun A characteristic property of a continuous function.
3. noun A narrative device in episodic fiction where previous and/or future events in a series of stories are accounted for in present stories.

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How do you use continuity in a sentence?

Continuity is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “While troubleshooting the heating and cooling system, we found a lack of continuity in a circuit that is normally closed.”

What is a short sentence with continuity?

“Considerable continuity of attention is needed to read German philosophy.”

What does continuity mean?

Continuity means lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.