continuous

Happening all the time without stopping or taking a break.

• The noise was continuous.
• We had three days of continuous rain.
• The machine needs a continuous supply of water.

Similar words: constant, uninterrupted, unbroken

Opposites: intermittent

Common phrases: continuous noise, continuous flow, continuous supply

Extending from one point to another without any gaps or spaces between parts.

• Draw one continuous line.
• The tiles form a continuous surface.
• A continuous wall runs along the road.

Similar words: unbroken, uninterrupted

Opposites: broken

Common phrases: continuous line, continuous surface, continuous strip

Describing a mathematical function that preserves closeness, with no sudden jumps in its values.

• This function is continuous.
• Every continuous map has an open preimage for each open set.
• Is the function continuous at zero?

How to use it: continuous at a point (The function is continuous at every point in this interval.)

Opposites: discontinuous

Common phrases: continuous function, continuous map, continuous at something