continuity

About 13.36 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.

   While troubleshooting the heating and cooling system, we found a lack of continuity in a circuit that is normally closed.

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.
4. noun A canon; one specific fictional universe within a multiverse.
5. noun Consistency between multiple shots depicting the same scene but possibly filmed on different occasions.
6. noun The announcements and messages inserted by the broadcaster between programmes.
7. adjective Being the successor to a no longer extant organization, operating under the same name and usually claiming to be the same entity.

Similar words

persistence continuation continued ongoing continuance permanency permanence perpetuate constancy perpetuation

Often followed by

of and in with between is equation to from

Word family

continuities