continuous

About 34.77 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.

   the continuous roar of a waterfall

2. adjective Without intervening space; continued.

   a continuous line of railroad

3. adjective Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
4. adjective 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. adjective 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. adjective Expressing an ongoing action or state.

Similar words

nonstop uninterrupted unceasing never-ending ceaseless incessant constant unremitting endless perpetual

Often followed by

and with process improvement flow or line operation spectrum

Word family

continuousness continuousnesses