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Continuous 音标拼音: [kənt'ɪnjuəs] a. 连续的,继续的,连续不断的
a. 连续的 连续的,继续的,连续不断的连续的 continuous连续 continuous adj 1: continuing in time or space without interruption; " a continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar atoms results in the emission of light"- James Jeans; " a continuous bout of illness lasting six months"; " lived in continuous fear"; " a continuous row of warehouses"; " a continuous line has no gaps or breaks in it"; " moving midweek holidays to the nearest Monday or Friday allows uninterrupted work weeks" [ synonym: { continuous}, { uninterrupted}] [ ant: { discontinuous}, { noncontinuous}] 2: of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity [ ant: { discontinuous}] Continuous \ Con* tin" u* ous\, a. [ L. continuus, fr. continere to hold together. See { Continent}.] 1. Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity. [ 1913 Webster] he can hear its continuous murmur. -- Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Bot.) Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated. [ 1913 Webster] { Continuous brake} ( Railroad), a brake which is attached to each car a train, and can be caused to operate in all the cars simultaneously from a point on any car or on the engine. { Continuous impost}. See { Impost}. Syn: { Continuous}, { Continual}. Usage: Continuous is the stronger word, and denotes that the continuity or union of parts is absolute and uninterrupted; as, a continuous sheet of ice; a continuous flow of water or of argument. So Daniel Webster speaks of " a continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." Continual, in most cases, marks a close and unbroken succession of things, rather than absolute continuity. Thus we speak of continual showers, implying a repetition with occasional interruptions; we speak of a person as liable to continual calls, or as subject to continual applications for aid, etc. See { Constant}. [ 1913 Webster] 133 Moby Thesaurus words for " continuous": abiding, accordant, ageless, alike, articulated, automatic, balanced, catenated, ceaseless, chronological, coeternal, concatenated, connected, consecutive, consistent, consonant, constant, continual, continued, continuing, correspondent, cyclical, dateless, direct, durational, durative, endless, equable, equal, eternal, eterne, even, ever- being, ever- durable, ever- during, ever- recurring, everlasting, everliving, featureless, flat, frequent, gapless, haunting, homogeneous, immediate, immemorial, immutable, incessant, indefatigable, indestructible, infinite, interminable, invariable, joined, jointless, lasting, level, linked, measured, mechanical, methodic, monolithic, monotonous, never- ceasing, never- ending, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, of a piece, olamic, ordered, orderly, perdurable, perennial, periodic, permanent, perpetual, persistent, reappearing, recurrent, recurring, regular, remaining, repetitive, returning, revenant, robotlike, round- the- clock, running, seamless, sempiternal, sequent, sequential, serial, serried, smooth, stable, staying, steadfast, steady, sticking, straight, sustained, systematic, temporal, thematic, thick- coming, tight, timeless, twenty- four- hour, ubiquitous, unbroken, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiversified, undying, unending, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unruffled, unstopped, unvaried, unvarying, without end
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