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The correct spelling is continuous.
How to pronounce continuous
/kənˈtɪn.juː.əs/
adjectiveIPA: /kənˈtɪn.juː.əs/
Say it like: Con-tin-uow-s
The correct spelling is continuous. Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption For example: "a continuous current of electricity"
Usage Examples
“a continuous current of electricity”
“a continuous line of railroad”
“Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected.”
Definition
adjective
- 1.Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption
- 2.Without intervening space; continued
- 3.Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
- 4.(of a function) 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.(more generally, of a function between two topological spaces) Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).
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