English Online Dictionary. What means continuity? What does continuity mean?
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French continuité, from Latin continuitas, equivalent to continue + -ity.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌkɒn.tɪˈnjuː.ɪ.ti/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌkɑn.tɪˈn(j)u.ə.ti/, [ˌkɑn.tɪˈn(j)u.ə.ɾi]
- (Wales, Ottawa Valley) IPA(key): /ˌkɒn.tɪˈnɪu̯.ɪ.ti/
- Hyphenation: con‧ti‧nu‧i‧ty
- Rhymes: -uːɪti
Noun
continuity (countable and uncountable, plural continuities)
- Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.
- (uncountable, mathematics) A characteristic property of a continuous function.
- (narratology) A narrative device in episodic fiction where previous and/or future events in a series of stories are accounted for in present stories.
- (uncountable, film) Consistency between multiple shots depicting the same scene but possibly filmed on different occasions.
- (uncountable, radio, television) The announcements and messages inserted by the broadcaster between programmes.
Synonyms
- (lack of interruption): See also Thesaurus:continuity
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “lack of interruption”): discontinuity; see also Thesaurus:discontinuity
Derived terms
Related terms
- continue
- continual
- continuousness