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Continuously

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Adverb

1. continuously

at every point

Example Sentences:
'The function is continuously differentiable'

2. ceaselessly, continuously, endlessly, incessantly, unceasingly, unendingly

with unflagging resolve

Example Sentences:
'dance inspires him ceaselessly to strive higher and higher toward the shining pinnacle of perfection that is the goal of every artiste'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Continuously

see synonyms of continuously
adjective
1. 
prolonged without interruption; unceasing
a continuous noise
2. 
in an unbroken series or pattern
3. mathematics
(of a function or curve) changing gradually in value as the variable changes in value. A function f is continuous if at every value a of the independent variable the difference between f(x) and f(a) approaches zero as x approaches a
Compare discontinuous (sense 2), See also limit (sense 5)
4. statistics
(of a variable) having a continuum of possible values so that its distribution requires integration rather than summation to determine its cumulative probability
Compare discrete (sense 3)
5. grammar another word for progressive (sense 8)

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Continuously

see synonyms of continuously
adjective
1. 
going on or extending without interruption or break; unbroken; connected
2.  Ancient Mathematics
designating a function whose value at each point is closely approached by its values at neighboring points

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Continuously

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adj.
1. Uninterrupted in time, sequence, substance, or extent. See Synonyms at continual.
2. Attached together in repeated units: a continuous form fed into a printer.
3. Mathematics
a. Of or relating to a line or curve that extends without a break or irregularity.
b. Of or relating to a function between two topological spaces such that the preimage of any open set in the range is an open set in the domain.

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