continuous
adj.adj. happening or existing without any breaks or stops. You use this to describe something that stays the same for a long time or a line that has no gaps.
adj. forming an unbroken whole without interruption or gaps in time or space. Often used in technical contexts to describe functions or sequences that lack discrete steps.
The machine makes a continuous humming sound all day.
The heavy rain was continuous for three days, causing the local river to overflow its banks.
In calculus, a continuous function is one where a small change in the input results in a small change in the output, represented visually as an unbroken line on a graph.
From Latin continuus, from contineō (“hold together”). Displaced native Old English singal.
Typically placed before the noun it modifies; often contrasted with 'intermittent' or 'discrete'.
a continual noisea continuous noise'Continuous' means never stopping, while 'continual' means happening repeatedly with small breaks in between.