What does "continuity" mean?
Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.
Continuity
/ˌkɒn.tɪˈnjuː.ɪ.ti/ noun
noun ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.
- Grammar: continuity is listed as noun.
- Nearest alternatives: uninterruptedness, about face, accommodation, accordance.
- Useful contrasts: civilizational collapse, constitutional revision, critical turning point.
- Usage evidence: Fans of the original comic had a field day with the myriad continuity issues of the movie adaptation.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time. countable, uncountable
"While troubleshooting the heating and cooling system, we found a lack of continuity in a circuit that is normally closed."
- 2 the property of a continuous and connected period of time wordnet
- 3 A characteristic property of a continuous function. uncountable
"The definition of a continuous function assumes that the function is already defined for x = a. If this is not the case, however, it is sometimes possible to assign such a value to the function for x = a that the condition of continuity shall be satisfied."
- 4 a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot wordnet
- 5 A narrative device in episodic fiction where previous and/or future events in a series of stories are accounted for in present stories. countable, uncountable
"In “Treehouse Of Horror” episodes, the rules aren’t just different—they don’t even exist. If writers want Homer to kill Flanders or for a segment to end with a marriage between a woman and a giant ape, they can do so without worrying about continuity or consistency or fans griping that the gang is behaving out of character."
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- 6 uninterrupted connection or union wordnet
- 7 Consistency between multiple shots depicting the same scene but possibly filmed on different occasions. uncountable
- 8 The announcements and messages inserted by the broadcaster between programmes. uncountable
Synonyms
All synonymsAntonyms
civilizational collapseconstitutional revisioncritical turning pointcultural revolution history
Example
"Fans of the original comic had a field day with the myriad continuity issues of the movie adaptation."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "continuity"?
Common synonyms include: uninterruptedness, about face, accommodation, accordance, action, adaptation.
How do you use "continuity" in a sentence?
Fans of the original comic had a field day with the myriad continuity issues of the movie adaptation.
How do you pronounce "continuity"?
Pronounced /ˌkɒn.tɪˈnjuː.ɪ.ti/.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French continuité, from Latin continuitas. By surface analysis, continu(e) + -ity.