continuous

Meaning

Adjective

• Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
• Without intervening space; continued.
• Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
• 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.
• Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).
• Expressing an ongoing action or state.

Related

Opposite words

• discontinuous
• non-continuous, noncontinuous

Origin

• From Latin continuus, from contineō. Displaced native .