continuity

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.
A characteristic property of a continuous function.
A narrative device in episodic fiction where previous and/or future events in a series of stories are accounted for in present stories.
A canon; one specific fictional universe within a multiverse.
Consistency between multiple shots depicting the same scene but possibly filmed on different occasions.
The announcements and messages inserted by the broadcaster between programmes.

adj

Being the successor to a no longer extant organization, operating under the same name and usually claiming to be the same entity.

Pronunciation

/ˌkɒn.tɪˈnjuː.ɪ.ti/ /ˌkɑn.tɪˈn(j)u.ə.ti/ [ˌkɑn.tɪˈn(j)u.ə.ɾi] [ˌkɑn.tn̩ˈ(j)u.ə.ɾi] [ˌkɑn.ʔn̩ˈ(j)u.ə.ɾi] en-us-continuity.ogg /ˌkɒn.tɪˈnɪu̯.ɪ.ti/

Word forms

continuity continuities

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French continuité, from Latin continuitas. By surface analysis, continu(e) + -ity.

Synonyms

continence continuity continuousness flow ongoingness uninterruptedness continuing

Antonyms

discontinuity noncontinuity unevenness

Related words

continue continual continuousness

Derived words

bicontinuity business continuity planning continuity announcer continuity nod continuity series discontinuity equicontinuity hemicontinuity Lipschitz continuity noncontinuity retcon Scott continuity semicontinuity sequential continuity solution of continuity uniform continuity

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